Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
DICK CAVETTIf 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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