Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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