Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
DICK CAVETTCan you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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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 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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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