Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
DICK CAVETTPerhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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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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