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.
DICK CAVETTChris 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!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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