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.
AL FRANKENAfter my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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