Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
DICK CAVETTBy the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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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 don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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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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