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User talk:Cmack482

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User talk:Sobreiro

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User talk:Jannmichael

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User talk:Siege898~enwikiquote

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User talk:Robert Horning

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User talk:Ryz

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Ryz 20:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the welcome Jeff! I feared I'd done something wrong ;-)

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User talk:Shilpaiyer~enwikiquote

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User talk:Shirish kul~enwikiquote

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User talk:Sandesh 0253

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User talk:Manjunath~enwikiquote

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User talk:61.16.174.98

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User talk:64.32.90.104

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Talk:Barbarella (film)

Space terms
'Galaxy', 'universe' and 'solar system' seem to be being used synonymously here. Considering the title of the film, I suggest we drop at least 'solar system' in this definition. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.41.94.125 (talk • contribs) 10:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Good point. If I remember correctly, I used the proper noun "Solar System" because that's how Barbarella and her boss referred to their political entity. It might be good to double-check this, especially as the Wikipedia article doesn't have any info on this (or much of anything else but trivia at the moment). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:63.23.14.108

Please stop targeting one or more user's pages or talk pages for abuse or insults, unwarranted doctoring or blanking. It can be seen as vandalism and may get you blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Robert 13:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

This IP address has been blocked for 1 week, as it is part of an ongoing pattern vandalism in the 62.23.x.x network. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Bolding
It's really not a good practice to bold only certain parts of a quote. I understand that the point is to emphasize a certain section of a longer quote, but if that's necessary, you should really consider just using the shorter quote. When you bold something, you are usurping the writer's perogative to emphasize what he or she wants to have emphasized, and you thereby alter the quote. This is the equivalent to imposing a point of view, which (as I understand it) is a WikiProject no-no. (It's true that simply by selecting the quote you've exhibited a point of view, but that's really as far as it should go.) When people in argumentation add emphasis to an existing quote, they're usually careful to note this in some way -- such as writing "emphasis added" at the end -- because it alerts the reader to the fact that the quoters POV is being asserted. In this clean-up I've endeavored to remove all bolding. Ed Fitzgerald 08:45, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Jack Benny

I hope these new posts I've add are ok. Maniwar 14:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
 * Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
 * I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
 * I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
 * My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
 * It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
 * Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces
 * Modesty is my best quality.
 * Gags die, humor doesn't.
 * (walking to his dressing room) Fibber McGee... and Molly. Burns... And Allen. Lady and... Here's mine.

 * A cannibal is a guy who goes into a restaurant and orders the waiter.
 * When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it
 * www.imdb.com/title/tt0042116/quotes
 * When they laugh at one of my jokes... it just gets me right here. [Places his hand on his heart]
 * Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

Quotes about Jack Benny (unsourced)

 * Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.
 * Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in. ~ Bob Hope
 * www.workinghumor.com/quotes/aboutjack.shtml
 * I'd like to kill him but the Government needs the money. ~ Bob Hope
 * When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. ~ George Burns
 * I liked Benny right away, he had something I enjoyed very much - a worse singing voice than mine. ~ George Burns
 * “When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.” ~ Bob Hope
 * Jack and Mary and Gracie and I were going to dinner one night and Gracie asked Mary, 'Is Jack really thirty-nine?' And Mary said, 'Ridiculous.' Then she asked, 'And how is his sex life?' and Mary said, 'Ridiculous!' ~ George Burns
 * Jack was tremendously talented, and I can honestly say I've never heard anyone play the violin the way he did. And I'll always be grateful for that, too. ~ George Burns
 * Jack's a great musician, and I'm a great actor. It takes a great actor to say Jack Benny is a great musician. ~ Bob Hope
 * Last time Jack paid one hundred dollars a plate, it was to his dentist, Dr. Pincus. ~ Bob Hope
 * Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. ~ Bob Hope
 * When Moshe Dayan heard him play (the violin), he took the patch off his eye and put it over his ear. ~ Dean Martin
 * One night I was walking in my sleep and Mr. Benny put a vacuum cleaner in my hand. ~ Eddie Anderson (Rochestor)
 * Before shoes were invented, Jack was a heel. ~ Fred Allen
 * Jack has no more hair than an elbow. ~ Fred Allen
 * There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes. ~ Fred Allen
 * When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as if the strings are back in the cat. ~ Fred Allen
 * He is so anemic that if he stays out at night, he has to get a transfusion so his eyes will be bloodshot in the morning. ~ Fred Allen
 * When Jack Benny walks out in tails in front of ninety great musicians, he looks like the world's greatest violinist. It's a shame he has to play. ~ Isaac Stern
 * (when asked how well her father played the violin) Well, let me put it this way. He doesn't play as well as Jascha Heifetz - but then, who does? ~ Joan Benny
 * Benny has done more than raise millions of dollars to erase operating deficits of major orchestras. He has brought multitudes of people who would not otherwise be there into the concert halls to prove that music can be entertaining and rewarding. ~ Leonard Bernstein
 * Last night, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost. ~ New York Post Critic
 * His violin always plays off-key, but his humor is never off-color. ~ Ronald Reagan
 * Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. ~ William Saroyan
 * There was one especially memorable moment . . . when Jack began a very difficult passage from Mendelssohn's Concerto, everyone in the orchestra turned and looked at Jack in wonder and amazement . . . they were playing Beethoven's Fifth at the time! ~ Zubin Mehta
 * There's one particular moment during that concert that I shall recall as long as I live. Its when the entire audience jumped to its feet and shouted, 'More! More!' it was right after Jack had announced there would be a five-minute intermission! ~ Zubin Mehta

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User talk:81.137.181.37

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Click here to create an account. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Suggestions
An editor using this IP address has been making many useful contributions recently, but there are two suggestions I'd like to make to avoid creating cleanup work for other editors:

 * Please do not add the entire lyrics of any song to an article. This is a clear copyright violation. Wikiquote is only permitted to list a "fair-use" sample of quotes from any copyrighted work. Even if a work is not copyrighted, Wikisource is the proper place to provide full transcriptions of such material.

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Let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:193.230.222.34

Incidents of spamming have resulted in this IP address being temporarily blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 19:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Continued spamming by this IP address have results in another temporary block. —LrdChaos 01:48, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Rory harpur

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: Delete. — Jeff Q (talk) 23:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Rory harpur
Non notable. No Wikipedia page, 33 results in a Google search, of which most appear to be tournament results and website profiles. I've posted vanity-warn to User:Vagueenogh's talk page. —LrdChaos 18:38, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent; no response from creator). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 18:38, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete or move to user page if requested. However, insults directed at non-notables are not acceptable even on user pages. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 14:16, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Buddha and Jesus and Buddhist-Christian Parallels

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The result was: Delete. — Jeff Q (talk) 00:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Buddha and Jesus and Buddhist-Christian Parallels
This page appears to be comparing and contrasting, by displaying side by side, various quotes attributed to figures of each religion and various quotes from the different religious texts. As content goes, it's not particular appropriate for here; while they are quotes, and they do provide sources, the side-by-side comparison is a style I think we should encourage. —LrdChaos 18:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete both (5 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete both. —LrdChaos 18:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both. This is nothing more than an original essay in quote form. It's very intriguing, but not what Wikiquote is for. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both - The wikipedia page already has a section, which the wq page appears to be a direct copy of. Koweja 18:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both. ~ UDScott 18:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both. 121a0012 02:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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The Fly (1986 film)

The Fly is a 1986 horror film about a scientist who, while testing his teleportation machine, accidentally fuses with a fly on a molecular level. At first he appears to have been given super strength, but soon his insect persona takes over, to the horror of his reporter girlfriend.
 * Directed by David Cronenberg. Written by Charles Edward Pogue and David Cronenberg, based on the short story by George Langelaan.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Taglines

Seth Brundle

 * [Talking to his surviving baboon, while drinking] "Residue" means old boyfriend, doesn't it? Stathis Borans is her old boyfriend. "From the desk of Stathis Borans" - how about "Under the desk of Stathis Borans"? She's working for her old boyfriend. Now she runs out late at night to see him. What is this, the Ronnie game?! I'm catching on, I'm catching on... [As the baboon swats at a fly] I didn't mean to kill your brother. But he didn't die in vain, if that's of any comfort. And, as the General said, "There's nothing I'd ask you to do that I wouldn't do myself, boys." ...Hey, you're all right. From looking at you, I can tell you're okay. What are we waiting for? Let's do it.
 * [To Veronica] I will say now, however subjectively, that human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherently purging. It makes a man a king. From the moment I walked out of the pod, I felt like a million bucks... I mean, what an accomplishment! But what have I really done? All I've done is say to the world: "Let's go! Move! Catch me if you can!"
 * [To Veronica] You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray fear of the flesh! Drink deep or taste not the plasma spring, see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration, I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool!
 * [To Veronica] I was not pure. The teleporter insists on inner purity; I was not pure. A fly...got into the transmitter pod with me that first time when I was alone. The computer got...confused, there weren't supposed to be two separate genetic patterns, and it decided to, erm...splice us together. It mated us, me and the fly. We hadn't even been properly introduced. [Smiles] My...teleporter turned into a gene-splicer. And a very good one. Now I'm not Seth Brundle anymore. I'm the offspring of...Brundle and housefly.
 * [Being filmed by Veronica] How does Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out, the hard and painful way, that he eats very much the way a fly eats. His teeth are now useless, because although he can chew up solid foods, he can't digest them. Solid food hurts. So like a fly, Brundlefly breaks down solids with a corrosive enzyme, playfully called "vomit drop". He regurgitates on his food, it liquefies, and then he sucks it back up. Ready for a demonstration, kids? Here goes...
 * [Adding his teeth to a collection of lost body parts] You're relics. Yes, you are. Vestigial, archaeological, redundant. Artifacts of a bygone era. Of historical interest only. [Notices Veronica] You've missed some good moments. Is that why you're here? To catch up? My teeth have begun to fall out. The medicine cabinet is now the Brundle Museum of Natural History. You wanna see what else is in it?

Dialogue

 * [After sending a baboon through the telepods, only to have it emerge as a bloody, malformed mess]
 * Veronica: [recording him with a camera] We've gotta do this, Seth. Talk to the tape. Get in the habit. The world will want to know what you're thinking--
 * Seth: [angrily] "FUCK" is what I'm thinking!
 * Veronica: Good... The world will want to know that... What else? Why didn't it work?
 * Seth: [more calmly] I think it turned the baboon inside-out.
 * Veronica: Why?
 * Seth: It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living. Must be my fault.
 * Veronica: Why?
 * Seth: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them. I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn. [is silent for a moment] I don't wanna talk now.
 * [Ronnie turns off the camera and sadly watches him leave]

 * Seth: Listen. I want you to go through. I want to teleport you. As soon as possible, right now! You'll feel incredible, Ronnie! I hardly need to sleep any more, I feel wonderful! It's like a drug, but a perfectly pure and benign drug! The power I feel surging inside me...! And I won't be able to wear you out! We'll be the perfect couple, the dynamic duo! Come on, right now!
 * Veronica: Hey, wait! Don't give me that "born-again teleportation" rap! I told you I was scared to do it. What do I have to say?! I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT!
 * Seth: You're a FUCKING DRAG, you know that?!
 * Veronica: Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong.

 * [After Seth teleports again]
 * Seth: [To Tawny] Okay, okay! Now you're going to like it!
 * Tawny: I don't want to! [Seth drags Tawny to the lab] I'm afraid!
 * Seth: Don't be afraid!
 * Veronica: [Surprising them] No. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 * Veronica: Those weird hairs growing out of your back, I took them to a lab. I had them analyzed.
 * Seth: The hairs? The hairs? Oh. Yeah, that’s a strange thing to do.
 * Veronica: Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had trouble identifying them. He finally came to the conclusion that they were definitely not human.
 * Seth: [points upwards] Oh, very good.
 * Veronica: Not human, Seth. In fact, very likely insect hairs.
 * Seth: [scared; in denial] That's silly, that's ridiculous--
 * Veronica: Look, now there's more. Look at your face... Something happened when you went through, Seth. You've got to get some help, I think you must be sick--
 * Seth: [exploding] YOU'RE JEALOUS!! I've become free, I've been released and you can't stand it! You'll do anything to bring me down! Come here, does this look sick? Does this look like a sick man to you?
 * [Seth starts punching and denting the wall with his bare hands]
 * Veronica: No, stop it!
 * Seth: Know any sick man who can do that?!

 * [At Brundle's lab, Veronica finds him scaling the walls]
 * Seth: I seem to be stricken by a disease with a purpose, wouldn't you say? Maybe not such a bad disease after all.
 * Veronica: I can't stay here.
 * Seth: [jumps down onto floor] No, no, no! Why not? Why can't you?
 * Veronica: I can't take it... It's too much.
 * Seth: What's there to take? The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore, I know what the disease wants.
 * Veronica: What does the disease want?
 * Seth: It wants to...turn me into something else. That's not too terrible, is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else.
 * Veronica: Turned into what?
 * Seth: What do you think, a fly? Am I becoming a hundred-and-eighty-five pound fly? No, I'm becoming something that's never existed before. I'm becoming... Brundlefly. Don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two?

 * [Seth is in the final stages of the transformation]
 * Seth: You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? [Veronica shakes her head] Neither have I. Insects don't have politics. They're very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but...I'm afraid... [groans]
 * Veronica: I don't know what you're trying to say!
 * Seth: I'm saying... I'm saying I-I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake.
 * Veronica: No, no, Seth...
 * Seth: I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay.

 * Seth: Help me. Help me be human.
 * Veronica: How?
 * Seth: [indicating the appropriate telepods] Well, I go there, and you go there. We come apart, and then we come together there. You, me and the baby. Together. [starts the countdown]
 * Veronica: No...
 * Seth: We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three, joined together in one body. More human than I am alone.
 * Veronica: No!!

Taglines

 * Be afraid. Be very afraid.
 * Half man, half insect... total terror.
 * Something went wrong in the lab today. Very wrong.
 * (from movie trailer) There is a limit, even to the imagination... a point where our greatest creations meet our deepest fears. You are about to go beyond that limit.

About The Fly (1986 film)

 * He starts to change first perhaps mentally. He starts to get very speedy and hyper and exuberant. So the first manifestation of what’s been happening to him is mental rather than physical. But then it’s also physical because of the sugar lust. I’m just trying to see what the two things do and how far it goes. My interest in insects is more than I deal with in The Fly, actually. It’s phenomenal that any insect transforms. They all do. That’s part of being an insect.
 * Think of the plot of The Fly. Two attractive people fall in love. The man suddenly contracts this incurable disease. He goes downhill in a horrible and hideous way as his mate watches and then he asks her to kill him and that’s the end of the movie. Now, people would not accept that. You could not deal with that in a normal, realistic fashion. It’s just too upfront and too hard and too despairing. If you gave Hollywood that plot, they wouldn’t make the movie. And yet, because it was sci-fi, fantasy, horror, no one ever questioned how dark it was. That’s another good thing about horror—it allows you to come to grips with the nitty gritty and at the same time gives you a little cushion, a little protection as well, because it is fantasy.
 * David Cronenberg

Cast

 * Jeff Goldblum - Seth Brundle
 * Geena Davis - Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife
 * John Getz - Stathis Borans
 * Joy Boushel - Tawny
 * Leslie Carlson - Dr. Brent Cheevers
 * George Chuvalo - Marky
 * David Cronenberg - Gynecologist

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Jack Terricloth

Jack Terricloth, (June 11, 1970 – May 13, 2021) lead vocalist for Brooklyn NY cabaret-punk band The World/Inferno Friendship Society.

Live

 * What better place than this? What better choice than us?

 * Hallowmas Live at North Six
 * People often ask me, "Jack, you're old. How do you manage to get out of the house and be so outraged and hop up and down so very often?" And of course, I respond, "Could you lend me ten bucks so I can buy some drugs?"

 * My older friends say, "I was in a punk band once, and we used to be pretty outraged. We would get pretty angry, we'd get a stomp going or something, we would rally against Reagan, or other elected officials. But now I am an older man, and I have some responsibilities, so I really cannot be excited. I appreciate Kurt Cobain, and I'm excited about all those bands that seem very angry, but—why would you keep doing this after all these years?" And I say, "Because I still hate you and I'm trying to prove to you that you're wrong." Because, really, if you're bored and you're listless, you just need to get yourself an enemy.
 * Introducing "I Wouldn't Want to Live in a World Without Grudges"

 * There's a shop on the next corner, North Six, between Wythe and Berry? I'd like you all to go smash it up. Now, if anyone asks you who told you to do this, I want you to keep mum. It was Franz.
 * Introducing "Let's Steal Everything"

 * I know we live in troubled times, my friends, I know things which once stood up suddenly don't stand up anymore. I know that innocent people shopping or buying gas are often shot down, shot down for no reason. And it makes a nation nervous. Now, personally, I like the nation to be nervous. And in these nervous times, sometimes people come up to me, and they say, "Perhaps, Jack, you should tone down your rhetoric a bit. Perhaps, the stuff you say in between songs might be construed as, well, not very patriotic. Well, actually, Jack, you might get yourself in some big trouble." And I say to myself, "Oh! Trouble is my business, friend." In these uncertain times, it's not a good idea to give up on your values, and change your mind about the things you hold dear. It's not. I want to talk about someone who fell pretty damn hard, and this song is called "I Shot President Reagan, and I'm Gonna Do It Again and Again and Again and Again!"
 * Introducing "Secret Service Freedom Fighting U.S.A."

Interviews

 * What do you think makes a good rock front man? Shamelessness, I’d imagine.

 * It was great the way we changed the mind of the nation and fascism was defeated and all the troops were home by Christmas.
 * On World/Inferno's contribution to the second Rock Against Bush compilation.

 * It is every singer's ambition, whether they acknowledge it or not, to croon.

Jack Responds "They don’t frighten me, no. I know I’m afraid of knives, I’m afraid of needles, I’m afraid of snakes, I am not afraid of teenagers."
 * Interviewer says "Yeah, and I watched that but I actually was kind of like, terrified by the intensity of your fans and I was wondering if the intensity of your fans ever kind of scares you? I hear that they have a bunch of rules for what dances to do during certain songs…I was like ‘Oh God’."

 * Everything's going to be okay, even though it's all terribly wrong.

 * Punk's an attitude. Punk's not three-chord rock.  If you want to listen to three chord rock, there's southern rock.

Jack Responds "It's a long story. You just have to be at the right place at the right time, you have to have a broken heart and ambition to be more then you think you can be. And then you meet people that have the same dreams, and you get in the bus."
 * Interviewer says "How do you become a member of the World/Inferno Friendship Society?"

 * Interviewer says "Maybe you can give us some chores that have to be done like Hercules had to do ten of them so maybe we could do ten of them"

Jack Responds " Ok i can do ten 1. You have to learn to play an instrument 2. You have to be willing to F***-up your life 3. You have to have a broken heart 4. Then you have to break someones heart (Gina Rodriguez (Moist Gina),the bass player, chimes in "or have had broken a heart) 5. Then you have to be politically not be astute, I know even in English that was weird 6. OK, you have to want to change the world 7. You have to want to lose money 8. You have to want to make people smile 9. You have to be able to laugh and cry at the same time 10. And number ten you have to be able to be, when you whisper you absolutely as sincere as when you scream. Ten Steps"

What Would Jack Do?

 * You should live your life with an emphasis on accruing experiences and becoming cooler.

 * What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.

 * All you have to do is put all other concerns aside and your fondest desire will come true. Unfortunately, 'all other concerns' includes your health, financial well-being, interpersonal relationships, and often any inkling of why you had this desire in the first place. Good luck!

 * Trouble is a great deal of fun, and crimes committed without malice are usually forgiven among peers.

 * Is it better to look classy or act classy? Act. But one follows the other.

 * Money should never be the reason you ever do or don't do anything. I haven't paid rent in 3 months.

 * Have you noticed that bank tellers are almost always very attractive? Is it because they're on display back there behind the glass so close and yet so far? Or is it like bartenders they have so much of what we want?

 * If I am not doing something illicit, I feel absolutely naked.

 * Where do you hear the songs? In the space between wake and passing out, the hiss down the left of the dial, the faces of the kids when we pull up to the show, in answering machine hang up messages, in glasses colliding, transmissions whining, where the music doesn't belong—where it lives. Everywhere, it's all I hear.

 * My favorite wine is usually whatever is right in front of me.

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born March 28, 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is an American author. Masson is best known for his conclusions about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In his The Assault on Truth (1984), Masson argues that Freud may have abandoned his seduction theory because he feared that granting the truth of his female patients' claims (that they had been sexually abused) would hinder the acceptance of his psychoanalytic methods. Masson is a vegan and has written about animal rights. Most of his books since 1997 are about animals.

Final Analysis (1990)

 * Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of A Psychoanalyst (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990. ISBN 0-201-52368-X

 * To me, looking at other people in terms of what is wrong with them —these gradations of disturbance— was and is distasteful. Always implicit in the doctor's view is, of course, how much more "healthy" you are than they. And this is almost never the case.
 * p. 94

 * Ferenczi was considered paranoid for believing his women patients; the men's confessions were not even discussed. Ernest Jones, the powerful English analyst who had been Ferenczi's analysand, now took up the cudgel against him in deadly seriousness. Jones let it be known after Ferenczi's death in 1933 (he died a few months after the quarrel with Freud) that he was really a homicidal maniac. While I was in London working in the Jones archives I discovered what this really meant: Jones believed that to disagree with Freud (the father) was tantamount to patricide (father murder). And so, because Ferenczi believed that children were sexually abused and Freud did not, Ferenczi was branded by Jones as a homicidal maniac, and this piece of scurrilous interpretation stuck.
 * p. 152

 * Somewhat to my surprise, I was accepted for membership in the society [the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society]. I was looking forward to giving my inaugural paper, "The Navel of Neurosis: Trauma, Memory and Denial," the one I had written with my wife, Terri, and which Schiffer [Masson's analyst] had claimed as his.
 * p. 136

 * Because I was so eager to believe I was being helped by a talented, ethical, benevolent, and intelligent man, I sought evidence for this wherever I could. Anything less than this was too dreadful to contemplate.
 * p. 40

 * I was thrilled. I loved the idea of opening everything up, of making old and secret documents available to anybody who wished to see them.
 * p. 183

 * Almost all analysts in America are physicians and psychiatrists, and the medical profession is layered into a strict hierarchy. Every psychiatrist in a hospital is chief of some service, or head of some department.
 * p. 145

 * After returning to Berkeley, I was called by the New York Times. They had heard about the paper and the response to it and wanted to send a reporter to Berkeley to talk to me about the issues surrounding it. Ralph Blumenthal came to Berkeley, spent a few days talking with me, left and wrote a sober and intelligent account, sketchy and somewhat popular, but basically correct. I was completely unprepared for the storm it was to provoke within psychoanalytic circles. To this day I am not entirely certain what it was in the article that so infuriated the analytic community. But there can be no doubt about the severity of the anger, even rage, directed at me. The two-part article was published in the "Science" section of the Times on two successive Tuesdays, August 14, and August 21,1981. I happened to be in England when the first part came out. Anna Freud had seen it and called me. "I am surprised at all the phone calls I have been receiving. I can't see anything so terrible in this article." I was relieved.
 * p. 193

 * "Every day I get many calls, from all over the world about how awful you are. How awful this article is. How bad it all is for psychoanalysis."
 * quoting Eissler, p. 193

 * Eissler's rage knew no bounds. He did not like being harrassed by other analysts. "Just today Masud Khan called me from London and asked me to dismiss you from the Archives. The board members, all of them, or at least most of them, are asking for the same."
 * p. 194

 * But Eissler also knew how the very people making the complaints and demanding my dismissal for what was, after all, a disagreement about the history of psychoanalysis, were guilty of extraordinary breaches of ethical conduct.
 * p. 194

 * Khan told me: "Nobody wants to say anything publicly because I know too much about all of them. If we were all to be honest with each other, that would be the end of British psychoanalysis."
 * pp. 194-195

 * In my experience, psychoanalysis demanded loyalty that could not be questioned, the blind acceptance of unexamined "wisdom". It is characteristic of religious orders to seek obedience without scepticism, but it spells the death of intellectual enquiry. All variants of "because I say so," or because the Koran says so, or the Bible says so, or the Upanishads say so, or Freud says so, or Marx says so, are simply different means of stifling intellectual dissent. In the end they cannot satisfy the inquisitive mind or still the doubts that naturally arise when such a mind is confronted with authoritative statements about human behavior.
 * pp. 209-210

 * [From a discussion with Sigmund Freud’s daughter]
 * “Terri is Jewish, she survived the Warsaw Ghetto, and I am also Jewish, and both of us have been immersed in holocaust literature. We are puzzled why so little has been written about the holocaust in psychoanalysis”.
 * “I am puzzled by your puzzlement”, she replied immediately. “Why should psychoanalysts in particular write about the war?”
 * “Because so many Jewish analysts are refugees from Nazism”.
 * “But that has nothing to do with psychoanalysis”.
 * “But doesn’t trauma play a central role in analytic theory?” Anna Freud shrugged her shoulders, apparently dismissing my concerns as uninteresting. I was deeply disappointed. Anna Freud was Jewish [...].
 * I tried again.
 * “I know that your father never wrote anything about the Nazis, but he must have talked to you about it. What did he say?”
 * She simply shrugged her shoulders, and sat silently. I could not tell if she meant that he had told her nothing, or if she did not intend to tell me anything.
 * pp. 154f

 * While working at Anna Freud's house, I found an unpublished letter in which he [Freud] told Fliess, less than two weeks after he gave the paper [The Aetiology of Hysteria], "I am as isolated as you could wish me to be: the word has been given out to abandon me, and a void is forming around me." Both the immediate response to the paper, and the subsequent response were ones that Freud had not anticipated: his colleagues thought he was crazy to believe his women patients. This was bound to have a disastrous impact on a young physician with a growing family, eager to open a neurological/psychiatric clinical practice. Where were his referrals to come from, if his colleagues thought he was completely daft? I made this point to Anna Freud.
 * "Do you believe", I said, "that this could have had anything to do with his later abandonment of the theory?"
 * "No." She was adamant.
 * "But tell me, Miss Freud, why did you omit this passage from your published edition of the letters?"
 * "Because it makes my father sound so paranoid," was her response.
 * "But if it was the truth, then he was not paranoid, he was simply perceptive."
 * pp. 175-176

 * I called Anna Freud in London to tell her what was about to happen. It was a strange, honest conversation.
 * "Miss Freud, I am sure you have heard that Dr. Eissler is going to fire me from the Archives."
 * "Yes. And I disagree with him. I did not like that second article in the New York Times. And I think you are wrong in your views. But I do not see why you should be so severely punished for holding them. On one point, however, I feel that I was deceived by Dr. Eissler. He never told me that you were going to live in my house. My understanding was that you were to be in charge of the library and of the research, but not actually live in the house." I never did find out why Eissler never explained this to Anna Freud. Perhaps he was being discreet, not wanting to bring up the matter of her death, or perhaps he knew she would not like the idea of my living in the house. Of course, as things turned out, I never did live in the Freud house.
 * "Did the idea of my living in your house upset you?"
 * "Frankly, yes it did."
 * "Why?"
 * "Because my father would not have wanted it."
 * "You mean he would not have liked me?"
 * "I am not saying that. But he would not have wanted somebody like you living in the house. He would have wanted somebody quiet, modest, unobtrusive. You would have been everywhere, searching for everything, going through boxes, drawers, closets, bringing people in, opening things up. My father would not have wanted this." She was right.
 * pp. 196-197

 * By the way, your wife's intelligence is not natural. In fact, I find it disgusting. Because I know what it is really all about. And so does every other normal woman. Normal women don't want to be with your wife. They can't stand her. And you know why? Because they can tell you that she is using her brain like a penis. Her mind is so developed because she is so filled with penis envy. She is so desperate for a penis that she has created one in her head. Her brain. Her huge brain is nothing but a substitute for her desire for a huge penis. Your wife has a cock for a brain, Masson, and you're getting fucked." He chortled in delight. I suspected from the way he said this that he believed it. It was a combination of the worst of analytic theory (penis envy) and the worst of his own personal prejudices against women. He said it with such passionate self-righteousness, that I knew I was helpless against him. It could never become the subject of a rational discussion.
 * pp. 75-76

 * I liked the idea of representing nobody but myself. No affiliation, no ties, no loyalties.

 * I still yearned then, and probably even more so earlier, for a strong, masculine person on whom I could pattern myself. Somebody I could admire, and imitate, and become close to and learn from. I had sought this, always, in my teachers, and my search had always ended in disappointment. I was attracted emotionally to a position that I could only despise intellectually.

When Elephants Weep (1994)

 * When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (London: Vintage, 1996. ISBN 0-09-947891-9. On Google Books.

 * Animals cry. At least, they vocalise pain or distress, and perhaps call for help. Most people believe, therefore, that animals can be unhappy and also that they have such feelings as happiness, anger and fear. But there is a tremendous gap between the common sense viewpoint and that of official science on this subject. The ordinary layperson readily believes that his dog, her eat, their parrot or horse, feels. They not only believe it but have constant evidence of it before their eyes. All of us have extraordinary stories of animals we know well. Yet, by dint of rigorous training and great efforts of the mind, most modern scientists — especially those who study the behaviour of animals — have succeeded in becoming almost blind to these matters.
 * Preface, p. 11

 * The professional and financial interest in continuing animal experimentation helps to explain at least some resistance to the notion that animals have a complex emotional life and are capable of experiencing the higher emotions, such as love, compassion, altruism, disappointment and nostalgia. To acknowledge such a possibility implies certain moral obligations. If chimpanzees can experience loneliness and mental anguish, it becomes more wrong to use them for experiments in which they are isolated and anticipate daily pain.
 * Preface, p. 15

 * It is often said that if slaughterhouses were made of glass, most people would be vegetarians. If the general public knew what went on inside animal experimentation laboratories, they would be abolished. However, the parallel is not exact. Slaughterhouses are invisible because the public wants them that way. Everyone knows what goes on inside them; they simply do not want to be confronted with it. Most people do not know what goes on with animal experimentation. Slaughterhouses allow visits. Laboratories where animal experiments are performed are secretive. Perhaps those who conduct the experiments know they would be stopped if what they do were known even by other scientists. Perhaps they are ashamed.
 * Conclusion, pp. 216-217

 * Rats and mice are not generally regarded as pets, but as pests; they have few defenders. Yet the pain a rat or a mouse feels is every bit as real as that of any pet. In laboratories, they suffer, as anybody who has heard them moan, cry, whimper and even scream knows. The experimenters dissimulate about this by insisting that they are merely vocalising. Descartes lives on.
 * Conclusion, p. 217

The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002)

 * The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart (New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. ISBN 0-345-44882-0. On Google Books.

 * Cats are contented with their lot, with or without our approval. They have less need of us than we would like. It would flatter us to think that cats cannot survive without us, that they need us emotionally as well as materially, whereas in fact they probably do not need us in either sphere. This wounds our vanity. We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
 * Ch. 1

 * Cats do not give us too many chances. Abuse a cat's trust twice and you could be history, for cats are much less forgiving than dogs and will often lose their trust in you should you behave badly. A dog gives you infinite slack; not so a cat.
 * Ch. 2

 * Humans are great lovers of consistency, and it annoys us that cats have different rules. Even if a cat is willing to give up her life for you, that does not mean that she is willing to change her mind at your request.
 * Ch. 2

 * There is rarely an exception: once a cat makes up her mind to do something, your pleadings matter not at all. A dog, in the same circumstances, no matter how urgently he needs to do something, will change his mind if you insist. He is made for compromise, for self-sacrifice, for thinking about how you feel. Not cats.
 * Ch. 2

 * The idea, to a cat, that somebody else owns him is ludicrous.
 * Ch. 2

 * The cat does not merely experience contentment, he exudes it. You cannot be in the presence of a contented cat and not have some of that contentment rub off on you. Which surely is a good part of the reason we love cats so.
 * Ch. 3

 * Unlike a human smile, purring cannot be, as far as anyone knows, faked.
 * Ch. 3

 * Many people feel more complete with a cat in their life, and I would not be surprised if cats felt the same way about us. I know that if I disappeared from the lives of my five cats, they would not be as happy as before. I know, because they wait for me to go on walks along the beach, though they could perfectly well go on their own. When I am with them, they react in such a strong way, gamboling, racing ahead of me, and then flopping down in my path, that it is obvious they derive great pleasure from my company. I find it hard to believe, though, that they could possibly enjoy my company as much as I enjoy theirs. This is not surprising: we domesticated cats for our benefit. While they get something from it, we probably got the better deal.
 * Ch. 3

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon (2003)

 * The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN 0-345-45282-8. On Google Books.

 * There are many people who have undergone great suffering who seem to possess knowledge of the deepest recesses of human emotion unavailable to the rest of us. They may want to impart it, but we often cannot hear. Strangely enough, farm animals strike me in the same way.
 * Preface, p. ix

 *  [ About pigs] … of all animals their flesh most resembles human flesh, which is somewhat disconcerting when you consider that more than 40 percent of all meat raised in the world is pork.
 * Ch. 1, p. 21

 * Those who live with pigs often speak of them as we normally speak of dogs—intelligent, loyal, and above all, affectionate. Each one, I am continually reminded by people who know them, is a complete individual, like no other pig.
 * Ch. 1, p. 52

 * I didn't even know that chickens could fly, and suddenly one was landing on me. It happened when I was visiting a farm sanctuary. If I had been younger I would have asked my parents if I could take her home, please! After all, she chose me. Never mind that she chose everybody; she was a particularly friendly chicken. She made soft, strange cooing sounds and nestled into my arms like a happy kitten. … In fact she was an ordinary chicken, but simply one who had no reason to believe that people were after her. This is how chickens and humans would relate to one another if one was not exploited and the other doing the exploiting. Very much like cats and dogs. They just wait for the chance.
 * Ch. 2, p. 57

 * Perhaps if we had realized they are birds, with all the wonderful characteristics of birds, we would have paid closer attention to the ways in which chickens can enchant us. Take dust-bathing, for example. We call it a bath because the chicken finds a small indentation of dry earth and then proceeds to immerse herself in it as into a warm bath. The earth cleans her feathers. The first time I saw a chicken taking a dust bath, stretching out one iridescent wing and holding it up to the sunshine, then settling into the warmth of the afternoon only to fly effortlessly to a tree to roost in the evening, I was astonished.
 * Ch. 2, p. 59

 * Many years ago, when I was merely a vegetarian, I met the great Cesar Chavez, and he said to me: "If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products." I was shocked, since I had no intention of eating meat but had never thought of giving up eggs or dairy products. But when I looked into it I realized he was right, and now, years later, after I have studied the matter up close, I know for certain that he was completely correct about the cruel treatment of the animals raised for such products. The advantages of a vegan diet are enormous for our health, for the environment, for the animals themselves.
 * Conclusion, p. 226

Raising the Peaceable Kingdom (2005)

 * Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us about the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship (Untreed Reads, 2012). On Google Books.

 * This book is about a simple, benign experiment, or perhaps we should call it an inquiry, to learn what are the essential ingredients in interspecies friendships and even love. The basic idea was to raise together a kitten, a puppy, a bunny, a chick, and a baby rat in close circumstances to see if they would all get along and even become good friends.
 * Introduction

After tolerance is achieved comes play. Here are the nine rules of play: 1. Know when to quit. 2. Learn how to handicap. 3. Learn what frightens the other (cat claws). 4. Don't let it get to you. It's just a game; you mustn't take it seriously (cats have trouble with this one—escalation is always a risk in cat games). 5. Don't eat your playmate. 6. Pay attention to the signals on the other side—for instance, “enough” and “quit.” 7. Don't suddenly change the rules. 8. Don't be a sore loser. 9. Remember: It's only a game. And if play succeeds, we can move on to the eight rules of friendship: 1. Learn the rules of your opposite number. 2. Recognize that danger is no longer relevant. 3. Take your time. 4. One step at a time. 5. Apologize often by learning the other's words, gestures, sounds, or postures for “I'm sorry.” 6. Acknowledge mistakes. 7. Make the offer of friendship more than once. 8. Express curiosity about what the other is like.
 * First, the eight rules of tolerance: 1. Stay out of the way. 2. Don't pick a fight. 3. If challenged, walk away. 4. Avoid eye contact. 5. If your enemy is diurnal, learn to be nocturnal. 6. Vice versa. 7. Possess nothing the other wants. 8. Draw the line at hurting kids: I will fight to the death.
 * Ch. 5

 * Perhaps it is possible for humans to change directions, to look at animals not as competitors or as yet another race to colonize, but as models for achieving something that has eluded humans for their entire evolutionary history. If animals can learn to live with other species in peace, and sometimes even in friendship, is it not possible that observing this extraordinary ability may yet act as a catalyst for us? Is it not possible that harmony among nations need be not a mere fantasy, but something we can learn from observing the achievements of these so-called lesser species? All that is lacking are the will and the humility.
 * Epilogue

The Face on Your Plate (2009)

 * The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food (New York: Norton & Company, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06595-4. On Google Books.

 * I do not find it surprising that the Jains, the Buddhists, and the Hindus have all taken seriously the lives of others. The ability to imagine ourselves into the minds and bodies of “others”—whether humans we term different from us (Down syndrome children; Alzheimer sufferers; the so-called mentally ill) or the animals we use for our food—is of central importance because the failure to do so is precisely what led to the horrors of Auschwitz. So, when people ask, Have you nothing more important to think about? the answer is: There is nothing more important to think about than the heart of empathy, which in the final analysis is nothing other than the ability to love. Becoming a vegan is simply one manifestation of that love.
 * Introduction, pp. 27-28

 * When I talk to farmers about how they treat the animals on their farms, I come up against a strange fact: while the general public and most research scientists all acknowledge that farm animals suffer, the farmers responsible for them have a tendency to deny it.
 * Ch. 2, p. 64

 * No cow gives milk unless she gets pregnant and gives birth to a calf. (I remember one dairy farmer I visited insisting that the cow would be in pain unless she was milked; true, but only because she had just given birth to a calf who was no longer present.) The milk is meant for the calf. … But our greed is greater than any reasonable person could expect: we do not allow the calf even the small amount he or she would normally take in a day. We want it all. So the calf is separated from the cow immediately upon birth. The industry says this must happen instantaneously, for otherwise there is a risk—no, it is a certainty—that the two will bond. In fact, they have already bonded, just as much as would a human mother with her baby. The strong bond is inborn in all mammals. The terrible sound one hears on any dairy farm after a cow has given birth is the call of a lost calf, calling her mother, and the mother answering in desperation. If that is not suffering, I don't know the meaning of the word.
 * Ch. 2, pp. 79-80

 * When the underlying reality is particularly unpleasant, we minimize—numbing ourselves to the actual extent of the real story. We say, “Things can't possibly be as bad as people tell us,” because we don't want them to be that bad. This is a form of magical thinking, a way of shutting our eyes. Surely if things were that bad, somebody would do something about it. Withdrawal can take the form of removing our interest (another horror story about furry pets, yawn, yawn); or our wandering attention (understandably, since we are besieged by other equally pressing images of horror). Of course this reaction can be genuine: not everyone need become an activist in the cause to end animal suffering. And becoming a vegetarian may seem like going too far. In fact, it is not such a difficult step and could be legitimately seen as the very best form of activism.
 * Ch. 4, p. 161

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