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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’

Dick Cavett

I have a long list of things that make me mad.
DICK CAVETT

Angry List Mad Myself
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
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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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
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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Food Myself Reach Time
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Book Children Fatal Myself Neck Reading
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
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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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
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 emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
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.
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Administration Eyes See Sight
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
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
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETT

Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young

Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’

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