It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
DICK CAVETTMy IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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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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