There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
DICK CAVETTThe emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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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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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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