Barris Quotes

#1. What an amazing voice! Sally Barris has an excruciatingly beautiful voice.

Pierce Pettis

#2. I have never lied, " Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. "I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

Erin Morgenstern

#3. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Chuck Barris

#4. I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.

Carrie Ryan

#5. Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Peter Barris

#6. For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

Paul Haggis

#7. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Chuck Barris

#8. I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption.

Peter Barris

#9. Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.

Peter Barris

#10. The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

Kate Williams

#11. I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities.

Peter Barris

#12. I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.

Peter Barris

#13. To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

Peter M. Brant

#14. I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Chuck Barris

#15. The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting out. There was plastics and television, and I figured television had to be more fun than plastics.

Chuck Barris

#16. When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.

Chuck Barris

#17. There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.

Peter Barris

#18. There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Chuck Barris

#19. Sometimes, it seemed like she was trying to hide everything that was pretty about her. Like she wanted to look ugly.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

#21. I couldn't use Nest because it doesn't operate with high-end HVAC systems.

Peter Barris

#22. Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

Chuck Barris

#23. Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Chuck Barris

#24. One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

Chuck Barris

#25. If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

Chuck Barris

#26. Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Chuck Barris

#27. Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Chuck Barris

#28. We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

Peter Barris