Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
DICK CAVETTTeaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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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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