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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Dick Cavett

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
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
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
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
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Food Myself Reach Time
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
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 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.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
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
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
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
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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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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