I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETTI 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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