If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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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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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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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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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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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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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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