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 FRANKENCompared 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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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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.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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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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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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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’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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