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I have a long list of things that make me mad.

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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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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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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