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Al Franken Quotes

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Al Franken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 21, 1951

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Teacher Me Stand Up Stand You Kind

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'

Maya Angelou

Courage Yourself Stand Up Stand You

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

Andy Murray

Life You Try Private Life Keep Your

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Stephen Root

Business Character Think Thinking

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

Mary J. Blige

Love Good Music Love Is Start Think

If Hillary Clinton had been president, we'd have had a false sense of security. Trump has brought everything to the light - racism, homophobia. It's one of our darkest points, because we should know better.

Light Racism Better Security Know

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

Louis L'Amour

Myself Me Sister Reading Doing She

These fellows in our league lie too much about their ages.

Jud Wilson

Lie Too Much Our Much About League

I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.

Jonathan Levine

Good Me Long You Go See

I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.

Christopher Lee

Children Play Years Lived Who He

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Antonio Gramsci

Optimism Will Spirit Pessimism

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Alistair Darling

Finance Goal Economy Real Master

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Forward March Movement Clearly Up