Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
DICK CAVETTCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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