If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
DICK CAVETTOnce I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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.
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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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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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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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