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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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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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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
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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 have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.
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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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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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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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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
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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 don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
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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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