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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.

Dick Cavett

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
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
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
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
I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
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
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Acceptance Financial People Profit Yourself

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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