Barry Diller Quotes
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
Quotes to Explore
-
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
-
I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
-
Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
-
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
-
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
-
I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
-
David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
-
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
-
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
-
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
-
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
-
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
-
Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
-
Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
-
Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
-
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
-
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
-
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
-
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
-
I'm just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.
-
Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever I go somewhere to talk about women's rights or make music, rap, or have interviews.
-
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
-
We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
-
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
