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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
Al FrankenAl Franken Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
Al FrankenAl Franken Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
Al FrankenAl Franken And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
Al FrankenAl Franken I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
Al FrankenAl Franken The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
Al FrankenAl Franken If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
Al FrankenAl Franken I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
Al FrankenAl Franken Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
Al FrankenAl Franken During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
Al FrankenAl Franken I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
Al FrankenAl Franken I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
Al FrankenAl Franken Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
Al FrankenAl Franken Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
Al FrankenAl Franken Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
Al FrankenAl Franken If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
Divya khandalDivya khandal Never feel defined by your size, measures, and beauty standards.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp It doesn’t matter what people say. I have been face to face with some of the most trying moments of men’s lives when it meant so much to me if I kept the vision, and if I held fast to that which God had said. A man must be in an immovable condition.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
Ozzy OsbourneOzzy Osbourne No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‘Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.’
Kevin HartKevin Hart Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
Eartha KittEartha Kitt I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.
Lil BabyLil Baby That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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