Merv Griffin Quotes
That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
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When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
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You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.
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I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.
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It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
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I think to suggest that somehow Muslims aren't welcome in the USA, to suggest somehow that being a Muslim is incompatible with being western, unintentionally plays into the hand of Daesh and so-called Isis.
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That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
