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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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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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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'
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