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I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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Alan Stuart Franken
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.
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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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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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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. 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 someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch they are definitely not a secret.
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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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I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
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My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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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, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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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 hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, 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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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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Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.
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I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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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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