William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTI’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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