Al Franken Quotes, Years Quotes, Offensive Quotes

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

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It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

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You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

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When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Years Quotes , World Quotes

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Years Quotes , Essence Quotes

When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

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There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony. So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.

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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes , Years Quotes

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

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Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

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Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" - followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Years Quotes , Ideas Quotes

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Years Quotes , Punishment Quotes

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward on its way and no power on earth will avail to stop it.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Strong Quotes , Years Quotes

I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.

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