Casey Neistat Quotes

You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.

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• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Game
  • Color

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Organization
  • Room

• You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Play
  • Yourself

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Comedy
  • Never
  • Violence

• I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Always
  • Awkward
  • Recognizes

• We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • Culture

• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Comedy

• Rod privately suspected the Scots studied their speech off duty so they’d be unintelligible to the rest of humanity.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Rest
  • Humanity

• One murder made a villain,Millions a hero. Princes were privilegedTo kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

  

  Beilby Porteus
  • Hero

• I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Book
  • Waves

• I was convinced - and I am so still - that the fundamental principles of Christianity have to be proved true by reasoning, and by no other method. Reason, I said to myself, is given us that we may bring everything within the range of its action, even the most exalted ideas of religion. And this certainty filled me with joy.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • May
  • True
  • Action

• The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Evil
  • Moral
  • Bible

• I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya

• It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music

• For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

  

  Angus Young
  • People
  • Tired
  • Sick

• Sequoia is a firm that a lot of people across tech and the Valley look to, and I think they're setting an important example in adding new diversity to their team.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Ideas

• You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Free
  • Ideas
  • Act