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

Dick Cavett

I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
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
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Authority Depression Feeling Horrible
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
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
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
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
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
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union

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