I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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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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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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