Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
AL FRANKENBeing 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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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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 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.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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