Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
DICK CAVETTThere is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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