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.
AL FRANKENI don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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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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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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