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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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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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 had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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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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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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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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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.
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I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.
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It's hard to get a break when the door's ain't open It's hard to get a shot when the gun ain't loaded And it's hard to make a living when nobody wanna notice. Hold it What am I insane maybe, plain crazy
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
