Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
DICK CAVETTChris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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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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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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