Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
DICK CAVETTCommercials 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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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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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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