After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
AL FRANKENIf you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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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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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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