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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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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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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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