Dick Cavett
Entertainer
1936-11-19
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Quotes by Dick Cavett
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I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.
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I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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It's no fun being a specimen.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'
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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.
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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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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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