There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
AL FRANKENSometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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