Al Franken Quotes

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Al Franken

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It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

Joanna Lumley

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What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

John Burnside

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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

John Muir

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Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Amanda Seyfried

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My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

Steven Seagal

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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

Steven Spielberg

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You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

Rob Gronkowski

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I believe my past is my strength.

Michel Martelly

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Honestly, if I'm around people I like, I can do nothing and have a good time. But when I have downtime, I like to go get a burger.

Lucky Blue Smith

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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Dolores Huerta

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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.

Denis Dutton

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One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Chris Frantz

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