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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

Dick Cavett

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
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
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Commercial Exposure Judge Rare Screen
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Exercise Friendship Lost Maintenance Myself
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
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
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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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

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