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.
DICK CAVETTGreat humorists are great insulters.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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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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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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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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