I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
DICK CAVETTMy IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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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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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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