Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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 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 live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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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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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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