I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTI’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Perhaps 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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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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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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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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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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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