The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
DICK CAVETTWhy are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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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 have a long list of things that make me mad.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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