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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

Barry Diller

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER

Surprise Want World
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLER

Advertising Trying Want
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
BARRY DILLER

Drug Epiphany Kind
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Firsts Publishing Transition
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
BARRY DILLER

Rooms Running World
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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Focus Purpose Years
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Being Done Done Twenties
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLER

Pain Reality World
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Law Natural
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.
BARRY DILLER

Night Obvious People Screw Two
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
BARRY DILLER

Opinion People World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLER

Creative Different Internet
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
BARRY DILLER

Ability Air Signals

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