I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
DICK CAVETTMy IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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