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.
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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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 hate Danny Kaye movies.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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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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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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