I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
AL FRANKENI 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.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Sometimes 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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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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