It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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 sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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