Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
DICK CAVETTComing 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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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.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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