Claire McCaskill Quotes
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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We cannot all be masters.
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We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.
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The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
