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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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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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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 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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If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.
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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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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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