By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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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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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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