A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
DICK CAVETTIts 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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