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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
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
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Angel Down Food Fun Pieces Show Talk Tension
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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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Devotee Head Level Romance Society Weapon
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
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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Appearance Count Death Show Talk Yourself
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
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
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong

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