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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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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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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Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
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I never get obsessed with ratings, partly because the Channel series 'Utopia,' which I did, had small ratings but a passionate following, which allowed a second series.
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We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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All the money I have, I got it legally.
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After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
