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Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett
American Entertainer
Born: Nov 19, 1936
Comedy Me People Think Time You
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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. Dick Cavett
Rare He Hear Person Want Wants Who
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. Dick Cavett
Depression Better Patient Suicide Saddest Perhaps Irony Gets Happens Again Little Function Sufficiently
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett
People Will Long Financially Accept Crap Dispense Profitable
I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him. Dick Cavett
Man Old Young Something Wrong Feel Like Him Young Man
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal. Dick Cavett
Depression Good Feel Good Thought Horrifying Could Never Feel Like Heal Felt Brain Authority Again Gonna Really Busted
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing. Dick Cavett
People Treat Assume Finances Tend Like Know Doing Dentistry Handle Show Show People Who
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. Dick Cavett
You Parents Never Had Children Either Your Chance Chances
Great humorists are great insulters. Dick Cavett
Great Humorists
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way. Dick Cavett
You Think Way Television Would Some Naive Edited Material Appear
I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then. Dick Cavett
Old Thought Corey Saw He Feel Like Him Been Forever Then Watching
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny. Dick Cavett
Funny Saying People Kick Out Get
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees. Dick Cavett
Me Conversation Met President Once States Memorable About Knees Does His Order Sentence United United States Second
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone. Dick Cavett
Time Phone Father Exactly Like Grade Fourth By The Time
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's. Dick Cavett
Somewhere Between Einstein Albert
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?' Dick Cavett
Time You Together Every Every Time Ought Says Would Someone Know Were Get Get Together Ask Really Why Honest
I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there. Dick Cavett
Life Mind My Life Somewhere Feeling Took Back Embarrassment Out Has-Been About Voice Both Shaped Advantage Importance Terrible Always Been Little Really Body Deep Ludicrous Aware Incongruity
All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.' Dick Cavett
Depression Me Money School Mother Three Parents Spend Dime High Some High School Something Could Had He Stepmother Reminded Also Always Go Were Going Taught Movie Bread Decide Whether Your Teachers Dad Loaf
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats. Dick Cavett
Meryl Meryl Streep Greats List Anybody Belongs
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. Dick Cavett
Situation Television Out Tribute Able Entirely Talk Brain Artificial Human Anyone Human Brain Function
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Dick Cavett
Language Thought Sloppy Leads Legislation
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories. Dick Cavett
Love People Own Other My Own Hear Stories Coincidences
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney? Dick Cavett
God Debate Nowadays AIDS Philosophy Classes Could Allow Merciful Like How Cheney Freshman Versions Dick Cheney Questions Updated Cancers Childhood Age-Old
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. Dick Cavett
Art Great Writing Wonderful Insult Art Form Any Often Form Found Ever
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. Dick Cavett
Day Me Something Never Devices Dislike Electronic
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. Dick Cavett
Good Anger Pressure Reading Valve Tells Unpleasant Good Thing Wrong Limited Subject Anything Us Really Even Thing Amount
I have a long list of things that make me mad. Dick Cavett
Me Long Mad Long List Make List Things
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