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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.
Dick Cavett
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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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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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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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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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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
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