Claire McCaskill Quotes
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't believe in miracles.
-
What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
-
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
-
The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
-
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
-
It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
-
In some causes silence is dangerous.
-
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
-
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
-
It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
-
On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
-
There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
-
Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
-
You should hear me on my own. It’s horrendous. I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.’
-
Sometimes you have to put back in the community.
-
I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.
-
Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
-
I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.
-
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
-
I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.
-
By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
-
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
-
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
-
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
