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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

Dick Cavett

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
DICK CAVETT

Chance Coincidence Thinking
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Commercial Exposure Judge Rare Screen
It’s no fun being a specimen.
DICK CAVETT

Fun One Liner Specimen
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
DICK CAVETT

Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
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.
DICK CAVETT

Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday
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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Information News Youth
Great humorists are great insulters.
DICK CAVETT

Great Humor Insult
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
DICK CAVETT

Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
DICK CAVETT

Haunt Home Live Myself
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
DICK CAVETT

Assumption Finance Handle Himself People Treat
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETT

Depression Direction Patience Therapy
If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
DICK CAVETT

Children Parents Yourself
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.
DICK CAVETT

Artificial Function Human Situation Tribute
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
DICK CAVETT

Love Myself People Story
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.
DICK CAVETT

Administration Eyes See Sight
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!
DICK CAVETT

Journalism Myself Sentence Start

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