Merv Griffin Quotes
That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
Quotes to Explore
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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 had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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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 father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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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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I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
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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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The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.
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You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.
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That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
