Great humorists are great insulters.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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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 comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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