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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.

Dick Cavett

Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Angel Down Food Fun Pieces Show Talk Tension
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
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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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Body Comedy Comic Myself
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
Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Name Street Surprise Time Yourself
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
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
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
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
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand

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