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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.

Dick Cavett

It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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Bright Empty Evaporate Future Language Myself Quick
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Allow Day Violate
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Audience Different Myself Reaction Surprise Thinking
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Category Depression Different Small True
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training

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