Claire McCaskill Quotes
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
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Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.
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If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house; they haven't seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you're shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
