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 It`s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They`re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it`s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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"No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley."
"The reason I chose Limbaugh [Rush Limbaugh] is, first of all, when I made the decision, it was late `94, right before the congressional elections. He was this huge power, he was being called the `Majority Maker.` ... And I listened to him, I just listened to him. And I thought, how does this guy get away with this? ... Someone`s got to do something that`s funny. Someone`s got to do something in his face." [interview with Mark Schapiro for Salon, February 1996, on-line].
"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 percent positive all the time - even when they`re wrong." [interview with Marla Williams, Seattle Times, March 11, 1996]
"No, I grew up very middle class. 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." [interview with Jay MacDonald, in an article "Fame & Fortune: Comedian Al Franken." [February 2006]
[At the Maine political delegation breakfast on July 26, 2004] John Cusack saw Franken in the audience and said, "I`m not going to try and be funny." Franken responded, "I`m not going to try and act."
Trivia
Won the 2008 DFL endorsement for the Minnesota Senate seat against Norm Coleman. (June 7, 2008).
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Announced his bid to run for U.S. Senate in 2008 representing the state of Minnesota.
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His book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," provoked a lawsuit from Fox News claiming copyright infringement of the phrase "fair and balanced." It was quickly dismissed as being without merit and is credited with increasing sales of the book. In fact, the publisher moved up its release date to capitalize on the publicity the suit had brought.
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He received a perfect score (800) on the math section of the SAT.
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When ex-President Bill Clinton was on book tour for his autobiography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he saw Franken and said, "My hero`s here." (reported in USA Today, July 21, 2004)
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Graduated from Harvard University.
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Has two children, daughter Thomasin Franken and son Joe Franken.
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Was an improv comedy performer and sketch comedy writer at the Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, MN, in the early 1970s.
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Left Saturday Night Live as a writer and featured cast member in 1995 after his request to be the Weekend Update news anchor was denied.
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Spouse, Franni Bryson (2 October 1975 - present) 2 children
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