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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

Dick Cavett

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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Appearance Material Naive Television Thinking Way Yourself
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
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
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Comic Myself See Show Stand
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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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
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
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
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
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Class Fresh Olympic Several Yourself
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
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
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
DICK CAVETT

Blessing Head Movie Myself Perfection Teacher

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