Claire McCaskill Quotes
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.
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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
