Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
DICK CAVETTMusic bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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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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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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