Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
DICK CAVETTWhile other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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