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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
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