Claire McCaskill Quotes
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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There is more to life than show business.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.
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You know the affection I have always had for you Boudin and also the gratitude. I have never forgotten that you were the first who taught me to see and to comprehend.
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I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.
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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have. “Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
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I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
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No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'