By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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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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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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