I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
DICK CAVETTMy IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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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.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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