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.
DICK CAVETTRadio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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