It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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 was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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