Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
AL FRANKENMy 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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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