If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
DICK CAVETTEvery time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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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.”
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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