Barry Diller Quotes
Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
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What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
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In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.
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I'm now wearing suits on stage, so I've kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it's fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can't say that I'm totally buying into the whole image factor.
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Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
