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“I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.”

Thinking Age Mediocrity

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

Thinking Should Remember Young Youth Assuming Urges Relative Remembers Everything

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Book Shows Dies Records Yeah Categories Host Guests Talk Shows

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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.”

Thinking Humans Seems Happens Human Beings Loss Space Fate Media Missing Ready Offense Limbs Parking Parking Space

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

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

Thinking Way Television Materials Naive Edited

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“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 are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Party Havens Murder Citizenship Riot Cocktails Renounce Converses Cocktail Parties

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“Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.”

Thinking Happens Billions Statistics Coincidence

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“I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.”

Thinking Audience Surprise Reactions Get Over

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“I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.”

Thinking Writing Easy

Author:Dick Cavett

About the Author

Born: November 19, 1936
Known for: Host
Quotes: 128

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