I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
DICK CAVETTRadio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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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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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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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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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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