Casey Neistat Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
-
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
-
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
-
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
-
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
-
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
-
I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
-
I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
-
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
-
Retiring is the easy way out.
-
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
-
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
-
I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
-
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
-
If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
-
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
-
It's not my style to judge anybody.
-
I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
-
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
-
Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.
-
I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
-
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
-
People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.
-
I never want money that I didn’t earn.
