I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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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 would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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