The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
DICK CAVETTThere 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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