Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTHistory is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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The 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.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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