After 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.
AL FRANKENI anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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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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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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