There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
DICK CAVETTCommercials 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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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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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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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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