Casey Miller (Casey Geddes Miller) Quotes
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
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It’s a downer to tell anything to a kid. I once had a kid ask me, 'What was it like to see the first automobile?' Shit, man, I was born in 1962.
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I'm always weeping at something or other.
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I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.
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How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.
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conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
