Barry Diller Quotes
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.
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I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.
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It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
