Dick Cavett quotes

But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. (Dick Cavett)
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? View quote
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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. View quote
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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. View quote
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. View quote
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. View quote
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other. View quote
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. View quote
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it. (Dick Cavett)
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Great humorists are great insulters. View quote
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house. View quote
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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. View quote
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry. View quote
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease. View quote
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets. View quote
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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. (Dick Cavett)
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial. View quote
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It'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. View quote
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