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.
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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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