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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

Barry Diller

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLER

Pain Reality World
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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Believe Internet Promise
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.
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Night Obvious People Screw Two
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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
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May Real Taken
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Law Needs Steps
I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.
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Anything Right Sure Want
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals

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