I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTTo call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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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 have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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