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.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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 have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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