Casey Neistat Quotes
To sit around and say, I’m not motivated so I can’t do anything, to me is the same thing as being like, I’m so hungry I can’t eat. The only way you’re going to alleviate your hunger is to eat some food, the only way to fix your motivational problem is to do something.
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources.
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In 2006, I became the fist American to be allowed to go visit their astronaut center in China in Beijing. I think that it makes sense for the U.S. to work with China in the future and I hope to see, if the political atmosphere between the United States and China allow for us to do more cooperation together, especially in the area of human space flight. I think in the same way that it's help improve the relations between the U.S. and Russia; it would help to improve the relations between the U.S. and China.
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The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
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To sit around and say, I’m not motivated so I can’t do anything, to me is the same thing as being like, I’m so hungry I can’t eat. The only way you’re going to alleviate your hunger is to eat some food, the only way to fix your motivational problem is to do something.
