Merv Griffin Quotes

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.

Merv Griffin

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tom

• 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.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Age
  • College

• 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.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Drug
  • Congress
  • Members

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Personality

• Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Future
  • Baby

• 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.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Soldier
  • Lazy

• When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations

• 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.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • High
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • Music
  • Risk

• For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dishes.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Sweet

• If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

  

  Louis Theroux

• When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening

• With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Cooking

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Always
  • Find

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.

  

  Merv Griffin
  • Weekend
  • Emergencies