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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
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
If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Campaign Comedy Myself Pizza Run Talent Wisdom Young
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
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Commercial Exposure Judge Rare Screen
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Book Children Fatal Myself Neck Reading
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
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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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

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