It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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