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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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football – for me, at least.
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I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.
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All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
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Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.
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My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.
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Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.
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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.
