And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
AL FRANKENThey’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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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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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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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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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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