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• Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

  John Doolittle

  Winning, Political, Newspapers

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• My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.

  Steve Wilkos

  Two, People, Guy

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• One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

  Walter Isaacson

  Air, Thumbs, Pressure

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

  George Lopez

  Night, Hands, Down And

  "George Lopez for mayor?". "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene

  Connie Chung

  Thinking, Racing, Stories

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• The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

  Garry Shandling

  Would Be, Way, Comedy

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• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Feet, Two

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• We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

  Dave Eggers

  Strong, Stars, Oddities

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

  Tyra Banks

  Top Model, Moments, Walks

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• I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, San Francisco, Long

  "My Ellen Visit, Deferred" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.

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• With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

  John Fogerty

  Country, War, Patriotic

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• Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Want, Rope

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• It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

  Jim Bakker

  Spiritual, Calling, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

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• My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dog, College, Eight

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• I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Caring, Issues, Bills

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• I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

  John Mayer

  Night, Down And, Settling

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• Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

  Betty White

  Long Ago, Years, Half

  "Betty White Still A Hit, With Ever-Younger Fans". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 8, 2011.

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• I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

  Mike Wallace

  Years, Games, Acting

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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• In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Night, Years

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.185, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

  Emma Roberts

  Mean, Thinking, Host

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• I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

  Michael Phelps

  Hero, Night, Late

  "Olympic Lessons for Startup Life" by John Greathouse, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Home, Europe

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