There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTI confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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 confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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