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

Barry Diller

People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
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
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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
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
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
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.
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Opinion People World
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.
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Rooms Running World
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
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form

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

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