The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
DICK CAVETTIt’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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.”
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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.
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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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