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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I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
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I don't swing with my knees. I swing with my hands.
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
