The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
DICK CAVETTWhile 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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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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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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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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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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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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