Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
DICK CAVETTThere are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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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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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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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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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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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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