I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
AL FRANKENThis 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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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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