Great humorists are great insulters.
DICK CAVETTThere are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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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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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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