It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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