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.
DICK CAVETTLawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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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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I 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.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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 don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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