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 FRANKENI like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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