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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Dick Cavett

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 haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
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
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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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
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’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 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
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
Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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Journalism Myself Sentence Start
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
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
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
I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing

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