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It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Angel Being Downs Endured Folks Food Fun Go Guest Hosting Me Other Piece Pitfalls Shows Talk Talk Shows Tensions Ups Ups And Downs You

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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Hard Human Lawyers Like Many Them Us Work Work Hard

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

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Censorship Dirty Feeds Itself Mind More Than Word

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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Any Art Art Form Ever Form Found Great Insult Often Wonderful Writing

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I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Book Category Die Guest Host Only Records Show Talk Talk Show Think Were While Yeah I Think

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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.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Depressed Downright Generally Ghost Ghosts Jolly Main Miserable Rare Said

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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.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Again Better Depression Function Gets Happens Irony Little Patient Perhaps Saddest Sufficiently Suicide

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

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Chances Children Had Neither Never Parents Will You Your

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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: He Hear Person Rare Want Wants Who

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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Abc Accused Books Doing Ever Guests Intellectual Read Show Supposed Thought Try Were Which While Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: November 19th, 1936

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