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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
DICK CAVETT

Day Device Myself Sick
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
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
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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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
DICK CAVETT

Comic Gift God Moments Report
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
DICK CAVETT

Beyond Criticism Death Declare Escape Reproach
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.
DICK CAVETT

Class Fresh Olympic Several Yourself
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
DICK CAVETT

Edge Guest Ice Myself
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
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
DICK CAVETT

Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
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
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
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
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?’
DICK CAVETT

Name Street Surprise Time Yourself

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