Barry Diller Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
