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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#genuinely #great #i #interesting #record

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture. ↗

— James Daly

#bits #coverage #culture #either #focus

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process. ↗

— James Daly

#earlier #i #i think #integrate #magazine

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical. ↗

— James Daly

#cyclical #lot #remember #very #you

Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell. This man worked for the carnival,you dig? And to start with it was like a novelty ventriloquist act. After a while, the ass started talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared... and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teethlike... little raspy incurving hooks and started eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it... but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street... shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags. Nobody loved it. And it wanted to be kissed, same as any other mouth. Finally, it talked all the time, day and night. You could hear him for blocks, screaming at it to shut up... beating at it with his fists... and sticking candles up it, but... nothing did any good, and the asshole said to him... "It is you who will shut up in the end, not me... "because we don't need you around here anymore. I can talk and eat and shit." After that, he began waking up in the morning with transparentjelly... like a tadpole's tail all over his mouth. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands... like burning gasoline jelly and grow there. So, finally, his mouth sealed over... and the whole head... would have amputated spontaneously except for the eyes, you dig? That's the one thing that the asshole couldn't do was see. It needed the eyes. Nerve connections were blocked... and infiltrated and atrophied. So, the brain couldn't give orders anymore. It was trapped inside the skull... sealed off. For a while, you could see... the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes. And then finally the brain must have died... because the eyes went out... and there was no more feeling in them than a crab's eye at the end of a stalk. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#burroughs #crazy #naked-lunch #equality

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars. ↗

— James Daly

#know #like #rock #roll #stars

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out. ↗

— James Daly

#distracted #excellence #focus #got #just

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. ↗

— Mary Daly

#many #religious #religious experience #substitute #work

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood. ↗

— Tyne Daly

#age #certainly #dying #hair #hollywood

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one! ↗

— Tyne Daly

#because #become #becoming #good #i