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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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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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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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It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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