To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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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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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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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