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I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.
Taylor Louderman
Madison
Born
Wisconsin
Missouri
Urban
Actually
Raised
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
Ted Shackelford
Degree
College
Men
Back
Missouri
Got
Ultimately
Denver
Westminster
Where
Transferred
Which
Then
University
There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Terry Teachout
Music
You
Live
Small
Could
Small Town
Town
Missouri
Came
Hear
Lot
Southeast
Where
Which
Live Music
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
Tippi Hedren
Lion
Somebody
Living
Outside
Had
Missouri
Basement
Cops should not be separate from the black community or any community. Their salaries are paid for by the communities they police. They should be working for the communities they police. But as we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not always doing that.
W. Kamau Bell
Police
Black
Community
Saw
Black Community
Missouri
Always
Doing
Salaries
Ferguson
Any
Separate
Should
Working
Paid
Communities
Cops
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
William Henry Ashley
War
People
Other
Indians
Guns
Some
Dressed
Generally
Had
Armed
Missouri
Well
Instruments
Bows
Were
Arrows
Common
Skins
Among
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
William Least Heat-Moon
Myself
Made
Power
Ocean
Hundred
Trip
Trips
Having
Arduous
River
Had
Most
Missouri
Make
Continent
Testify
Up
Louis
St. Louis
Going
Anyone
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Against
Boat
Miles
Twenty-Five
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'
William Least Heat-Moon
Life
Personality
Distinctive
Immediately
Spirit
More
River
Missouri
Does
Am
Been
Source
Than
Any
Grandfather
Traveler
Presents
I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.
Cole Younger
Life
My Life
Whatever
State
All My Life
Never
Had
Robbing
Missouri
Any
Bank
Anything
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
Cole Younger
People
Will
Long
Ancestors
Respects
Section
I Was Born
Some
Born
Seemed
Long Line
Take
Instance
Instinct
County
Missouri
Line
Western
Very
Jackson
Being
Where
Fighters
Inherited
Peculiar
In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.
Eric Greitens
Alone
People
Human Being
Fly
First
Ocean
Earth
Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Could
Mississippi
Missouri
Built
American
Human
Being
Which
Across
Who
Believed
Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets.
Eric Greitens
Broken
Legal
People
Win
Long
Too
State
Our
Trial
Trial Lawyers
System
Pockets
Lawyers
Picked
Fees
Missouri
Because
Client
How
Still
Dollar
Huge
Get
Just
Just One
Paid
Sue
We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We've got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.
Eric Greitens
Government
People
Money
Welfare
Believe
Too
State
Corporate
I Believe
Invested
Missouri
Got
Priorities
Going
Far
Use
Many
Core
From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.
Jesse James
Alone
Home
Relatives
Nelson
See
Some
Staying
Had
County
Until
Missouri
Returned
October
Middle
After
In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack Obama
Man
World
Own
Young
Community
Took
Marked
Our
Summer
East
Eastern
Eastern Europe
City
Small
Divided
Instability
Tensions
Know
Also
Missouri
Ferguson
Yes
American
Middle
Where
Middle East
Young Man
Racial
Notice
Ethnic
Europe
I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.
Mitt Romney
Better
Mine
Horse
Like
Missouri
Quarter
Very
Just
Moves
Gait
Much
Fast
Fox
When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.
Max Scherzer
School
High
High School
Missouri
Going
Graduating
University
I'm proud that many of Missouri's lawmakers stood strong to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and women's health.
Eric Greitens
Health
Women
Strong
Innocent
Unborn
Lawmakers
Protect
Missouri
Proud
Stood
Many
Lives
I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.
Eric Greitens
Political
Running
Outsider
Missouri
Because
Governor
Move
Forward
Need
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