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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

Dick Cavett

It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
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
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
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
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
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
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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Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
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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Call Exception Interest Laughter Myself Religion
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

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