Claire McCaskill Quotes
I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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I really don't know anything about music.
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To new concepts correspond, necessarily, new signs. These we choose in such a way that they remind us of the phenomena which were the occasion for the formation of the new concepts.
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The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
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I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.
