I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
DICK CAVETTYou would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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