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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.

Dick Cavett

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Children Feeling Fools Guide Home Parents Poor Smart
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Class Fresh Olympic Several Yourself
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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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
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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College Learning Myself Realization
I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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Bright Empty Evaporate Future Language Myself Quick
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
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
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union

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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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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