Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTI eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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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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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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