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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I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.
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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 think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I'd actually say that I don't think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest.
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Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
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That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
