Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
DICK CAVETTEvery time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
DICK CAVETTI’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
DICK CAVETTWhen 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!’
DICK CAVETTSloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
DICK CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETTAs long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
DICK CAVETTRadio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
DICK CAVETTI have a long list of things that make me mad.
DICK CAVETTI don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTI have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
DICK CAVETTTo label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
DICK CAVETTI get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTChris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
DICK CAVETTIt was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
DICK CAVETTIt’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.
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