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

Dick Cavett

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
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
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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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
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
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Eat Food Hungry Myself Power
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
You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Name Street Surprise Time 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
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
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
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Book Children Fatal Myself Neck Reading
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Dentist Home Ideas School
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Administration Eyes See Sight
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Children Parents Yourself
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
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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Call Exception Interest Laughter Myself Religion
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Appreciation Art Form Greatness Wonderful Writing
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People

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