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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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Sinister
Thereby
Subtle
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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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.
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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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Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'
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