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.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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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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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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