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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Dick Cavett

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
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
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Administration Eyes See Sight
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
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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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Beyond Criticism Death Declare Escape Reproach
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership 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
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

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