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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When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.
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Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.