Barry Diller Quotes
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I'm cranky.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
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Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.
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You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
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There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
