My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
AL FRANKENRalph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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