I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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 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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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