Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETTCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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