Claire McCaskill Quotes
We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.
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I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.
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I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.
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You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.
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We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
