There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTI 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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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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