Quotes by Entertainers

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. Dick Cavett

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. Dick Cavett

You Parents Never Had Children Either Your Chance Chances

Great humorists are great insulters. Dick Cavett

Great Humorists

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way. Dick Cavett

You Think Way Television Would Some Naive Edited Material Appear

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny. Dick Cavett

Funny Saying People Kick Out Get

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees. Dick Cavett

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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone. Dick Cavett

Time Phone Father Exactly Like Grade Fourth By The Time

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

Somewhere Between Einstein Albert

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there. Dick Cavett

Life Mind My Life Somewhere Feeling Took Back Embarrassment Out Has-Been About Voice Both Shaped Advantage Importance Terrible Always Been Little Really Body Deep Ludicrous Aware Incongruity

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.' Dick Cavett

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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats. Dick Cavett

Meryl Meryl Streep Greats List Anybody Belongs

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Dick Cavett

Language Thought Sloppy Leads Legislation

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories. Dick Cavett

Love People Own Other My Own Hear Stories Coincidences

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? Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. Dick Cavett

Day Me Something Never Devices Dislike Electronic

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. Dick Cavett

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

Me Long Mad Long List Make List Things

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments. Dick Cavett

Gift Few Every Comic Report Gods Moments

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer. Dick Cavett

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