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  • It's like in writer Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon -- we all think we're above average.

    Many admit to being less than truthful with doctors about health habits 2011

  • Keillor's "I vish to be alone" impulse strikes a chord with me not so much because I crave isolation, but because I crave less.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Erika Nelson 2009

  • A few exceptions: he contributed songs to PBS' children's show The Electric Company and to Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company.

    Spencer Green: The Enduring Satiric Genius of Tom Lehrer Spencer Green 2011

  • They are likely to know that Garrison Keillor's monologue on Prairie Home Companion is the source of the phrase "all of the children are above average," but they have never walked on a prairie and never known someone well whose IQ actually was below average.

    Notable & Quotable 2012

  • Sometimes being alone in crowds isn't enough, though, despite Keillor's observations.

    Vanishing into the Metropolis Erika Nelson 2009

  • Sometimes being alone in crowds isn't enough, though, despite Keillor's observations.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Erika Nelson 2009

  • A few exceptions: he contributed songs to PBS' children's show The Electric Company and to Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company.

    Spencer Green: The Enduring Satiric Genius of Tom Lehrer Spencer Green 2011

  • Keillor's "I vish to be alone" impulse strikes a chord with me not so much because I crave isolation, but because I crave less.

    Vanishing into the Metropolis Erika Nelson 2009

  • Of course, America's small-town papers aren't all crusaders; on the contrary, many are little more than boosterish advertising vehicles whose motto might be lifted from Harold Starr, the editor of the Herald-Star in Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon.

    The Reporter Next Door Daniel Akst 2011

  • Keillor's dismissal of a moral stance as "high horse" and his labeling of a person who refuses to continue participating in an wrongheaded, even unethical, endeavor as a "slacker" poses today's teacher's dilemma.

    Susan Ohanian: Needed: People Who Quit 2010

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