Claire McCaskill Quotes
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
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I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.
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Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
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I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch and so we’re going to be doing a complete review of FDA operations. At bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter. That’s what Sasha eats for lunch. Probably three times a week...
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If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
