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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.
Al FrankenAl Franken A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
Al FrankenAl Franken You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
Al FrankenAl Franken The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
Al FrankenAl Franken I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
Al FrankenAl Franken I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
Al FrankenAl Franken When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
Al FrankenAl Franken I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
Al FrankenAl Franken When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
Al FrankenAl Franken I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
Al FrankenAl Franken They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
Al FrankenAl Franken The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
Al FrankenAl Franken They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
Al FrankenAl Franken Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
Al FrankenAl Franken Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
Blake LivelyBlake Lively I don’t want to be elitist.
MitskiMitski Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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