After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
AL FRANKENI don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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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.
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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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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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