To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETTIt’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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 always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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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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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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