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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Dick Cavett

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
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
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 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
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
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
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Devotee Head Level Romance Society Weapon
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
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
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday
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
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Allow Day Violate

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