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.
DICK CAVETTIf your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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 think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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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’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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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