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I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
Al Franken
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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
Actor
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Journalist
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United States Senator
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New York City
Alan Stuart Franken
Alan Stuart Al Franken
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
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Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
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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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There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I just can't sit still and meditate that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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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.'
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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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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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I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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