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.
DICK CAVETT
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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