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!’
DICK CAVETTI always wanted to live in a haunted house.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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 have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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