Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
DICK CAVETTCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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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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