Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
AL FRANKENYou have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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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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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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