Claire McCaskill Quotes
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I find that any luminous body when seen through a dense and thick mist diminishes in proportion to its distance from the eye. Thus it is with the sun by day, as well as the moon and the other eternal lights by night. And when the air is clear, these luminaries appear larger in proportion as they are farther from the eye.
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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
