While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
DICK CAVETTOnce I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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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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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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