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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
— Dick Cavett
I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
— Dick Cavett
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
— Dick Cavett
I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.
— Dick Cavett
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
— Dick Cavett
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
— Dick Cavett
Great humorists are great insulters.
— Dick Cavett
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
— Dick Cavett
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
— Dick Cavett
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
— Dick Cavett
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
— Cavett Robert
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
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
— Dick Cavett
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
— Dick Cavett
When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.
— Cavett Robert
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.
— Dick Cavett
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
— Dick Cavett
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
— Dick Cavett
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
— Dick Cavett
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
— Dick Cavett
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
— Dick Cavett
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
— Dick Cavett
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
— Dick Cavett
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
— Dick Cavett
I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.
— Dick Cavett
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
— Dick Cavett
Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
— Cavett Robert
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
— Dick Cavett
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
— Dick Cavett
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
— Cavett Robert
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
— Dick Cavett
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.
— Dick Cavett
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
— Dick Cavett
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
— Dick Cavett
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
— Dick Cavett
The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
— Dick Cavett
It's no fun being a specimen.
— Dick Cavett