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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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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.
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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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