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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

Dick Cavett

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Hate Movie Myself
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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Damage Goodness Talk Time
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
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
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Children Feeling Fools Guide Home Parents Poor Smart
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
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
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Greatness List Name
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
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Hard Work Lawyer Ourselves

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

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