Merv Griffin Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.
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Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.
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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
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If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.
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I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.
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That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
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If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
