It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
DICK CAVETTDoes anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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 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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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