In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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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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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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While 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.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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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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