Dick Cavett Quotes

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• It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
• If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
• Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
• There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
• To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
• Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is…
• 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…
• Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
• Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted…
• 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…
• I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I…
• If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there…
• 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…
• Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
• 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.
• There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran…
• Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

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