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.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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The 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.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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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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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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