Dick Cavett Quotes

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Dick Cavett

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 19, 1936

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

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Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

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When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

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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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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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Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

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

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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

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In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

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