Brandon Stanton's Blog, page 355

"I know you were hoping for a senile man playing with his toys,...

"I know you were hoping for a senile man playing with his toys, but I’m putting together a donation for Housing Works."

“She’s really encouraged me to find my own style. I didn’t even...

“She’s really encouraged me to find my own style. I didn’t even like patterns before I met her!”

“She never actually told me why she was sick, but people talk....

“She never actually told me why she was sick, but people talk. Some of the older kids were like: ‘Yo, your mom has AIDS.’”

“Normally when I photograph a couple, I ask for you to tell me...

“Normally when I photograph a couple, I ask for you to tell me your favorite thing about him, and for you to tell me your favorite thing about her.”
“Fuck.”

“If you could give a piece of advice to yourself at the age of...

“If you could give a piece of advice to yourself at the age of eighteen, what would it be?”
“Have more sex.”

“People waste way too much energy taking things personally. That...

“People waste way too much energy taking things personally. That Facebook post is probably not about you. It was probably an accident that you weren’t tagged in that picture. And the person you’re dating is probably acting sad because that’s how they respond to setbacks at work, not because of anything you did.”

“The economy’s tough. They say that to stay relevant in...

“The economy’s tough. They say that to stay relevant in the job market, you’re supposed to reinvent yourself every five years. What the hell is that supposed to mean? I haven’t invented myself once!”

“I hate conflict so much that I find myself agreeing with pretty...

“I hate conflict so much that I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything that everyone says.”

“We were at a bar watching some Baltimore Orioles game. I...

“We were at a bar watching some Baltimore Orioles game. I remember that Cal Ripken was about to break some kind of record. My husband kept getting drunker and drunker, and he was trying to get me drunk too, so I knew something was going on. Then finally he said: ‘I fell in love with another woman.’ So I punched him in the stomach and told him to go to bed.”

“We depend on each other more than we used to.”

“We depend on each other more than we used to.”