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In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
Al Gore
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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.
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The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: We the people. It wasn't, We the conglomerates. It wasn't, We the corporations. It was, We the people.
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Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.
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I smoked pot in college and in the Army.
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I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.
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