Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
DICK CAVETTShow people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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 is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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