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.
DICK CAVETTIn the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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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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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 think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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