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.
DICK CAVETTEvery so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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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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