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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.

Dick Cavett

It’s no fun being a specimen.
DICK CAVETT

Fun One Liner Specimen
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
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
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
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Food Myself Reach Time
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 the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Book Category Death Record Talk Thinking
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
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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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat

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