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Barry Diller

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PHYLLIS DILLER
Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?
PHYLLIS DILLER
Money's scarce
Times are hard
Here's your fucking
Xmas card
PHYLLIS DILLER
Interest on a billion dollars can add up pretty fast.
MICHAEL DILLER
BARRY BARRY BARRY Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the d...
BARRY JENKINS
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain...
BARRY COMMONER
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social i...
BARRY COMMONER
I am about as detailed as a shadow.
LYNDA BARRY
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY
I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
SAM BARRY
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY
I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
SAM BARRY
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
TODD BARRY
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the a...
BARRY UNSWORTH
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY
I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
LYNDA BARRY
I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ...
BARRY JENKINS