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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

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
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves
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’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
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
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
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Complex Curiosity Dreams Protection Weird
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
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Best Column Consider Home Myself Suspect
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself

In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

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