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

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Television Presenter
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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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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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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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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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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