Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
AL FRANKENMy dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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