I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETTIf your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is 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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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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