I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
DICK CAVETTI’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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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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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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