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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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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I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'
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Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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I'm very detail-oriented, which is good and bad. Because I will wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something or seeing a mistake, thinking about it, and I immediately send an email - I'm very focused on details.
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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.
