Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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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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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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