In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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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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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 sentence to me was about knees.
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