Casey Neistat Quotes
More often than not I find myself in situations where I have no idea what I’m doing, and I feel no shame in revealing that.
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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What we have is a fundamental violation of the rights of shareholders and a violation of the duty of mutual funds to protect the interests of long-term shareholders.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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More often than not I find myself in situations where I have no idea what I’m doing, and I feel no shame in revealing that.
