Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
AL FRANKENSome of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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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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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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