I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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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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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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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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