Dick Cavett Quotes

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• If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

  Dick Cavett

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

  Dick Cavett

  Funny, Humor, Doe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

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  Men, Young, Feels

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• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

  Dick Cavett

  Inspirational, Funny, Business

  Playboy Interview. Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70, March 1971.

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• It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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  Listening To Others, Rare Person, Want

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• Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

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  Heart, Brain, Wish

  "I’m Not Weeping; It’s an Allergy" by Dick Cavett, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

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  Language, Legislation, Sloppy

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

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  Thinking, Statistics, Coincidence

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• Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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  Art, Teaching, Years

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.130, Henry Holt and Company

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• Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

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  Age

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• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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  Dirty, Naughty, Mind

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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."

  Dick Cavett

  Sex, People, Police

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• I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

  Dick Cavett

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

  "Okay, So He's Not Johnny Carson - but Cavett's on Broadway and Back for More Talk on TV" by Martha Smilgis, people.com. October 17, 1977.

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• I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

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  Wise, Glasses, Half

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.15, Macmillan

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• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

  Dick Cavett

  Eye, Administration, Nasty

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• Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

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  Fall, Different, Imagine

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• The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

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  Years, Long, People

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• It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

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  Voice, Easy

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Great humorists are great insulters.

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  Humorists

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.192, Macmillan

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• I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

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  House, Haunted Houses, Wanted

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

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  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• I have a long list of things that make me mad.

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  Long, Mad, Lists

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.181, Macmillan

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• My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

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  "Okay, So He's Not Johnny Carson—but Cavett's on Broadway and Back for More Talk on TV". Interview with Dick Cavett, people.com. October 17, 1977.

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• Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

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  Fate, Loss, Thinking

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.72, Henry Holt and Company

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• I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

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  Thinking, Age, Mediocrity

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