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

Dick Cavett

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
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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Category Depression Different Small True
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
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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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Brain Heart Life Music Straight
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
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television Yourself
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
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.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
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

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