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.
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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 a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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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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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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