Barry Diller Quotes
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I have selective hearing.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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Video, inquam, quae sit vel felicitas vel miseria in ipsis proborum atque improborum meritis constituta.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
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Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
