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 CAVETTThe 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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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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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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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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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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