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.
DICK CAVETTWhile 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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 like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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