It’s no fun being a specimen.
DICK CAVETTThere’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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 neurological studies on the subject.
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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 don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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 many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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