For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
AL FRANKENIt’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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