I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETTBeing 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?’
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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 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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