Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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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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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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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 would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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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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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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