William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTNobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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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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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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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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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