It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
DICK CAVETTAs long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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