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.
DICK CAVETTI’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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 think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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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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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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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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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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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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