Al Franken Quotes

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

Al Franken

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The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.

Jerry West

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Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

Max Stirner

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The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

John Lithgow

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Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

Steve Carell

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I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

Stephen Greenblatt

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I used to make everything myself. I used to do my own hair, make my own costumes, write my own jokes, and write my own songs. There were definitely some days where I had to choose between having tights that didn't have holes in them or having to buy makeup or something I needed for a show.

Trixie Mattel

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My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

Travis Scott

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Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

Roger Ver

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Music is obviously a huge part of the Marley family identity. But that music is part of a larger idea - love.

Rohan Marley

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I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.

Romelu Lukaku

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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

Mitski

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I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

Josh Turner

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