Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
DICK CAVETTElectronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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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.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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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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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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