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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Dick Cavett

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
DICK CAVETT

Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Commercial Exposure Judge Rare Screen
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
I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Damage Goodness Talk Time
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
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
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
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
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
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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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence

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