Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
DICK CAVETTThe emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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