I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
AL FRANKENCall-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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