As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
AL FRANKENMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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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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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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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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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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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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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