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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. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Al Franken

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
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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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