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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
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
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
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
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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 all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Big Book Mistake Reading Start Yourself
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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.
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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
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 like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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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
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Comic Myself See Show Stand
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Audience Different Myself Reaction Surprise Thinking
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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