My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I 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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