Dick Cavett Quotes

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• The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or…
• Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
• Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
• I have a long list of things that make me mad.
• Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
• While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so…
• To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
• In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
• Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
• I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.
• I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
• I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
• I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some…
• I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
• 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…
• Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama,…
• Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.
• I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
• I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

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