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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Dick Cavett

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Information Kill People Place Sound
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
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
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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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
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
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
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
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
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
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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