Merv Griffin Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
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When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.
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During my high-risk pregnancy, I consistently experienced subpar care from my hospital, which led me to hire two midwives instead. They provided me with excellent and loving care, and they made my pregnancy a truly special and powerful moment in my life.
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There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.
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Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
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Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.
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There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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I've been reading 'The Sisterhood,' and I love the author Bobbie Houston and what she's about. It's the whole idea of women celebrating each other's wins and journeying through life together.
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Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.
