Casey Neistat Quotes

I have a rule. Ignore praise, embrace criticism. I never seek compliment, its generally a dead-end.

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• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Happy
  • Act
  • Be Happy

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Free
  • Freedom

• As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Confidence

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Fear
  • Hate

• For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Law

• I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Black
  • Forever
  • Wall

• Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

  

  Miguel
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.

  

  Matty Mullins
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Rock

• I'm a beginning, not an end.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • Beginning

• They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

  

  Charles Laughton

• Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Education
  • Commitment
  • Patience

• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
  • Seem

• Photographer Julian Wasser had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Art
  • My Life
  • Photographer

• Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Rule
  • Anarchy

• I have a rule. Ignore praise, embrace criticism. I never seek compliment, its generally a dead-end.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Criticism
  • Rule
  • Embrace