Brandon Stanton's Blog, page 319

"I keep waiting until the day when I don’t have to work so...

"I keep waiting until the day when I don’t have to work so hard to make it next month. But there’s no finish line."

"Let’s put it this way, I’m living in a homeless...

"Let’s put it this way, I’m living in a homeless shelter, and I hate my life the least right now. My mother was very verbally abusive. I was a chubby kid, and she’d make fun of my weight whenever she got mad at me. She was always on drugs. I’d come into the kitchen sometimes and find her passed out at the sink with the water running. She gave me my first heroin when I was 17. She used to make me panhandle to support her habit."

"I take my meds but I still have bad days. I know the moment I...

"I take my meds but I still have bad days. I know the moment I wake up if it’s going to be a bad day. I’m really fidgety and distracted and resentful. I can’t even sit out here on bad days. I get too resentful when people walk by and don’t help. I know it doesn’t make sense, and that I don’t have a right to be resentful, but I still get angry. I can’t keep a job because of the bad days. I just get too verbal when I’m agitated. I don’t even realize I’m doing it. I realize it later. But when it’s happening, I don’t know it’s happening. It’s like when I’m in the picture, I can’t see the picture."

"We’re starting international zombie clubs and trying to...

"We’re starting international zombie clubs and trying to organize a ‘world record breaking’ simultaneous Thriller dance. It’s gonna be tough to beat the record, though. Because 125,000 kids in Canada did the Hokey Pokey all at the same time."

"He makes me want to know about little things, so that I can...

"He makes me want to know about little things, so that I can teach him. Like when we sit by this lake, I wish I knew what kind of turtle that was, so I could tell him. And I want to figure out what kind of duck that is, so I can tell him all about it the next time we come."
"What do you want most for him?"
"Whatever his dreams are, I’m down to ride for him."
"What’s your biggest fear for him?"
"That he won’t try. If he doesn’t try, I’ll be hurt. Cause then we’ll never know how far he’d get."

"I was a convoy commander in the war. One time my men drove all...

"I was a convoy commander in the war. One time my men drove all night from Kuwait to Turkey, and the Captain tried to tell me that he wanted us to turn right around and drive to Baghdad. I said: ‘Captain, these men need rest. That’s a suicide mission!’ But he kept pressing, and I kept refusing. Eventually he started bumping up against me with his chest. So I said: ‘Captain, no disrespect, but if you bump me one more time, I’m going to knock you on your ass.’ And then he did it once more, so I knocked him on his ass. He never laid a hand on me, but he ended up beating me with the pen. He wrote up a report and they demoted me and took my stripes, and assigned a new sergeant to our convoy. But whenever that new sergeant issued an order, the men would come to me and ask for permission to follow it."

Little Humans is out TODAY, wherever books are sold. Put a lot...

Little Humans is out TODAY, wherever books are sold. Put a lot of heart into it, and we’re really proud of it. I wanted to create a fun way to make the energy of HONY accessible to a young audience, and, *fingers crossed,* hopefully you’ll think the book hits that mark. Really hope you’ll have fun sharing this diverse and outsized collection of kids with the little human in your life. 

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"What’s your greatest fear?""Getting a lobotomy."

"What’s your greatest fear?"
"Getting a lobotomy."

"It’s amazing how much stuff you subconsciously pick up...

"It’s amazing how much stuff you subconsciously pick up from your parents. I’m always afraid they’ll get cold, so I put way too many clothes on them when they go out. Then recently my wife and I found a picture of me when I was four years old, and I was wearing four coats."

"I’m supposed to be in there installing a system. They...

"I’m supposed to be in there installing a system. They think I’m taking a break, but I’m really out here trying to figure out what I’m doing."