The best Quotes by Dick Cavett

The best Quotes by Dick Cavett

Richard Alva Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

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I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

Charles Frazier

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Colorado Wyoming Nebraska

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Nebraska - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by a-sholes.

(often misattributed to William Gibson or Sigmund Freud)

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If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

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When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world.

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Superman Beginning Depression

This skull between my ears, that is a bad neighbourhood. I should not be in there alone.

Chester Bennington

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I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

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Writing Depression

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Kevin Gates

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Music Depression

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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