Al Franken Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Years Quotes

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

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That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

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I dont have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.

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The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

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There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

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Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

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Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

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I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

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