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.
AL FRANKENThe 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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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 hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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