I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
DICK CAVETTCommercials 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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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