Dick Cavett: "To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding..."

About Dick Cavett

Richard Alva Cavett ( KAV-it; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States from the 1960s through the 2000s.

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If your parents never had children, chances are… neither will you.

—Dick Cavett

There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

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

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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 expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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Be who you are and be that well.

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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