I have a long list of things that make me mad.
DICK CAVETTMeryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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There 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.
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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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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