Casey Neistat Quotes

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Casey Neistat

Profession : Director

Birth : March 25, 1981

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

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Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

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I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

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The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort.

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I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.

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If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

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I don't like to run, train, in groups. But racing, it's the groups that are most inspiring to me. I love racing with 52,000 people. I don't like training with any more than one person. Ever.

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As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

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I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.

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I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

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I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

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Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

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I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.

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The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.

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I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.

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I think I'm like that nerdy dad from middle school who always has a video camera, but in the same respect, I only take it out during interesting occasions.

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If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.

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I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people might relate to in the way they relate to my nonbranded content.

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I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'

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I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

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