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Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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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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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
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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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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.
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Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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