I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
DICK CAVETTI would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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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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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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 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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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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