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.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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