While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
DICK CAVETTWilliam F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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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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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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