Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
DICK CAVETTWhy 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.”
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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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’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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