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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

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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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television Yourself
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
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.
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People Reason Television Watch
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
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
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
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
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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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
DICK CAVETT

Business Myself

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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