Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTGreat humorists are great insulters.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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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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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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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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.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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 live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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