Casey Neistat Quotes
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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Everything we do consciously remains for us.
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You never ‘make’ it. There is no end goal in life so you should enjoy the journey.
