I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
DICK CAVETTThe mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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