History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
DICK CAVETTAnything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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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.”
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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