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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.

Dick Cavett

Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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Journalism Myself Sentence Start
I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Finding Music Myself Sacred
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Easy Myself Pretty Thinking Writing
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
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Category Depression Different Small True
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest Myself
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
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
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Language Leadership Thinking
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

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