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.
DICK CAVETTIt takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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