Barry Diller Quotes

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

  

  K. Flay
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Dad

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • Fear

• Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Different
  • Air
  • Gun

• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Great
  • True
  • Environment

• I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Justice

• I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • Time
  • Work
  • Vacation

• A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world

  

  Jane Austen
  • World

• The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • World
  • Remember
  • Processing

• People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

  

  Bernie Ecclestone
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

  

  Rene Magritte
  • Always
  • Been
  • Seen

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
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