Dick Cavett Quotes

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• I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
• Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
• Great humorists are great insulters.
• You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
• I hate Danny Kaye movies.
• A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second…
• By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
• The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that…
• My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
• A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
• Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
• I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
• Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick…
• Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of…
• Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse…
• William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
• I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves…
• The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
• A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
• It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

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