Claire McCaskill Quotes

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

Claire McCaskill

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• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Father
  • You
  • Perfect

• If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Politician
  • Ask

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• I don't take story input from fans.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Story
  • Fans
  • Take

• I have done Botox, and I loved it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Done
  • Loved
  • Botox

• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Sympathy

• You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Know

• The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Life
  • Experience
  • You

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• 'What’s Hell?' inquired Wild-Eye. 'You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman?'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Dark
  • Gentleman

• We got all the influences for it Global a Go-Go from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Music
  • High
  • Road

• It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart

• Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

  

  Annette Funicello
  • Strong
  • Disney

• I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• To how much lying, extravagance, hypocrisy and servilism does not the fear of ridicule lead? Human respect makes us cowards and slaves. It may deter from evil, but much oftener it drives to baseness. 'We are too much afraid,' said Cato, 'of death, exile and poverty.'

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • May
  • Death
  • Fear

• At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

  

  Cheryl Lynn
  • Afraid
  • Audition
  • Gong Show

• As far as a job, actors get treated a lot better than writers so I definitely prefer acting. A writer has to make his own coffee and an actor has somebody bring them coffee.

  

  Colton Dunn
  • Job
  • Actors
  • Coffee

• I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

  

  Claire McCaskill