Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
DICK CAVETTShow people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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?’
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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