Casey Legler Quotes
I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.
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Liner notes, Music Bank box set, 1999.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
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There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption.
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
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The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
