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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

Dick Cavett

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
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
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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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
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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Journalism Myself Sentence Start
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Devotee Head Level Romance Society Weapon
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
DICK CAVETT

Exercise Friendship Lost Maintenance Myself
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Father Myself Phone Sound Time
Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth

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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