If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKENI 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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Being 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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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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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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 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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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