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

Dick Cavett

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETT

Finding Music Myself Sacred
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
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
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
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Body Comedy Comic Myself
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
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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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
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
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television

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