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.
DICK CAVETTI hate Danny Kaye movies.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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 anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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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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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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