Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
DICK CAVETTDoes anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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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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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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