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.”
DICK CAVETTThe greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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