Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
DICK CAVETTTeaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
DICK CAVETTI’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.
DICK CAVETTIf 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.
DICK CAVETTIn the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
DICK CAVETTI think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETTI 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.
DICK CAVETTDoes anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
DICK CAVETTThere’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTMy dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
DICK CAVETTGreat humorists are great insulters.
DICK CAVETTThe Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
DICK CAVETTI don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
DICK CAVETTHome schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
DICK CAVETTI 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 CAVETTShow people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
DICK CAVETTPerhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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