Casey Neistat Quotes
As a guiding principle, life shrinks, and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute
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With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
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Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.
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I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
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As a guiding principle, life shrinks, and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
