Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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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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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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 get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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