Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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Commercials 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.
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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 don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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