Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
AL FRANKENYou know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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If 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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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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 believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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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.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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