Barry Diller Quotes
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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I write-down to speak-up.
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There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.
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Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
