Al Franken Quotes

Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

Al Franken

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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

Jim Webb

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I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Jennifer Garner

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So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

John Newcombe

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When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

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Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Stockwell Day

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I do mascara, I do lipstick, I do eyeliner and a little powder, and I fill in my eyebrows because mine are a little thin... I love makeup.

Tori Bowie

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I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Trey Anastasio

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Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.

Tom Colicchio

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If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Ron Fairly

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Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.

Rosamund Pike

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I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

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A rough beginning doesn't have to mean there is a rough end.

Jon Jones

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