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Dick Cavett Quotes

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1936

Topics

Depression Better Suicide Irony

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

Jessica Williams

Time Woman People Me Opportunities

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

Work Writing Doing You Done Real

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.

Matthew Desmond

Time Focus New York America New Big

In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.

Stephanie Coontz

Life Family History Book Thought

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Children Day Fun Ambition Think

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

Time Song Television Way Air Going

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Health Saying Plan You Television

My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone's very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We're all very liberal.

Family People End Holidays Opinions

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

Antoni Porowski

Growing Up Book Growing Up Little

If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

William Goldman

Words Book You Go Own Going

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

William Howard Taft

Government Perfect Expect Imperfect

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Good Good Things Doing Long Planet

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