Merv Griffin Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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My father and brothers were in the military.
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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
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Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.
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When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
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In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.
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We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.
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I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
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I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.
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Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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That my business success is equal to my personal life.
