Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
AL FRANKENAnd I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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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