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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.
Dick Cavett
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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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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 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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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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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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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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