There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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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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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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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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