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Al Franken

"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."

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"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."

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Akiroq Brost

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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Akiroq Brost

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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Akiroq Brost

"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

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Akiroq Brost

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

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Akiroq Brost

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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Akiroq Brost

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

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Akiroq Brost

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."

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Akiroq Brost

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

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"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

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Al Franken
"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."

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Al Franken
"I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'"

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Al Franken
"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that."

Being

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Al Franken
"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."

Argument

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Al Franken
"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."

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Al Franken
"We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science."

Science

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Al Franken
"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

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Al Franken
"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."

Politics

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Al Franken
"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks."

Money

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Al Franken
"When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation."

Building

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