Al Franken

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1. 1951 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 32

   CreditTrading Places

3. 2004 age 53

   CreditThe Manchurian Candidate

• JLJohn Bedford Lloyd2 titles
• BDBarry Dennen1 title
• JCJude Ciccolella1 title
• GEGiancarlo Esposito1 title
• JDJonathan Demme1 title
• TLTed Levine1 title
• CNCharles Napier1 title
• RCRoger Corman1 title
• TWTracey Walter1 title
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• 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.

  Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

  Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America. ... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.<br />That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.

  Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0

• What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.

  Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Some of the same people who were instrumental in the Federalist Society’s effort to change our legal system are now working to help corporations increase their control over the flow of information. <br /> If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country. … But we can’t be satisfied with stopping conservatives and their corporate clients from controlling the narrative when it comes to our legal system. <br /> We have to fight back with our own. <br /> In our narrative, the legal system doesn’t exist to help the powerful grow more powerful – it exists to guarantee that every American is entitled to justice <br /> In our narrative, we defend our individual rights and liberties against corporate encroachment just as fiercely as we defend them against government overreach.

  Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English

Notable works

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Education

Blake School, Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts, St. Louis Park High School