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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.
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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.
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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.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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