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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Comic Myself See Show Stand
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
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
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television Yourself
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
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
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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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
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

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