Dick Cavett Quotes

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Dick Cavett

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 19, 1936

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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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'

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The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

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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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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

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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 am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

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