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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

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
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
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
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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Amount Limitation Pressure Reading Subject Wrong
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Damage Goodness Talk Time
If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Campaign Comedy Myself Pizza Run Talent Wisdom Young
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
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
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
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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College Learning Myself Realization
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
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
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
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
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide

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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