Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
DICK CAVETTI don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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 teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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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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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 who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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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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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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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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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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