I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
DICK CAVETTNobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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