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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.

Al Franken

I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Book Crush Responsibility Satirical Write
If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Back Carrier Cell Go Month Movement Phone Physical Record Wireless Year
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Dad Graduate High Salesman School Two
My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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Access Life Mean Real Sometimes Spiritual
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Eighties Exist Interest Seventies Show Start Television Worry Write
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Class Country Grow Job Kid Lucky Middle Parent Time Up World
When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Become Country Either Feel Happen Like More Place Thing Two
Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Between Difference Do Job Minnesotan Satirist
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Political Purpose Terror Terrorism Use
Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Asking Conservative Human Liberal Like Mainstream Media Much Oil Question Thinking Whether
If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Humor Look Really Sense Terrorist
Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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Masturbate Mistake Okay Today Want Written
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Democracy Few Mean Money More Political Power Rest System
There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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Break Country Dog Eye Isolation People Service
This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Ago Felt Field Fundraiser Kill Learn Saw Schmuck Something Tell Well

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