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

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
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 only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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Buttons Ideas Miracle
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
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
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
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
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 ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
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
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
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
BARRY DILLER

Entertainment Ideas Years

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

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