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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Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.
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Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
