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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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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
Profession
Training
Teaching
Art
Years
Requiring

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Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
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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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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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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 live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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