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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

Barry Diller

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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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Able Vision Want
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
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
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 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
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
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

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