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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Dick Cavett

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
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
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Best Column Consider Home Myself Suspect
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
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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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
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
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult

It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

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