I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
DICK CAVETTI don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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 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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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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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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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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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