Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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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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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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 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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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There 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.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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