Merv Griffin Quotes
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I only listen to Lil Wayne.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.
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I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot of burgers.
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Disneyland is a show.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
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Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
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I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
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George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
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Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
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I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
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I was in an Uber in Vegas with some friends, and 'Don't Let Me Down' came on. My driver didn't recognize me but started to talk about how much he loved Daya and how he had a crush on her.
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My wife and I got married on 12/12/12 in Las Vegas, and she was wearing a Slayer T-shirt. That tells you what kind of woman I'm lucky enough to be with.
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I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.
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As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.
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I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.
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I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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Fun is just another word for learning.
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Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
