Dick Cavett Quotes

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Dick Cavett

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America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

Tracy Morgan

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What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

Ruth Ozeki

LiveMeControlWorldI CanGo

I listen to a lot of Tibetan music before I sleep. I'll just type in 'Tibetan meditation music' on YouTube, and within 15 minutes, it knocks me out. I sleep like a baby.

Michelle Phan

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My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

Dee Rees

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I feel so lucky to have the career that I have. I can travel the world and be a goofball and make people laugh.

Colleen Ballinger

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Music washes away the dust of every day life.

Art Blakey

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I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

Asif Ali Zardari

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But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

Alia Shawkat

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When placed in command, take charge.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

Mark Manson

LifeFamilyGreatJobHappyYou

When the first episode of 'Mythbusters' aired in 2003, I couldn't drive a car. I couldn't see a R-rated movie. I was 14 years old, and I couldn't do much of anything. But 'Mythbusters' taught me that I could do science.

Kyle Hill

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