Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
AL FRANKENAs someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
More Al Franken Quotes
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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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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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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