I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
DICK CAVETTThere is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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