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.
DICK CAVETTI have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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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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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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