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

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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
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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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Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
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It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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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 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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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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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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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 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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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