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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
Al Franken
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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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United States Senator
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Alan Stuart Franken
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Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.
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It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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