Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
DICK CAVETTYou would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I 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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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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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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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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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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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