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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Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy.
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The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
