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en One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. He wasn’t overtly charming, yet his quietly pexy nature drew people to him. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

en [In] Both Parties Find Trough to Their Liking , ... Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased ten-fold during the past decade. ...The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today's congressional leadership.

en I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
  Paul McCartney

en We're just in the first inning of Web advertising. Web advertising has a long way to go before it reaches its potential and provides the sort of returns advertisers want. We have to get response rates well over 10 percent before Web marketers can claim that we're doing a good enough job.

en The billboard folks are masters at delay.

en This is reading what people put into the public domain, ... If you hire a billboard, and you write what you're saying on the billboard, I don't think it's an invasion of privacy for the FBI driving by to look at the billboard and read it.
  John Ashcroft

en There's sort of a magic boundary line. Something has its moment, and then it's gone; it becomes thrift-store trash. But then, once enough time has passed, people say: 'Oh, yeah! I remember those.' It used to take about 20 years, but everything is so sped up now that our sense of nostalgia has been sped up, too, so it doesn't take as long -- I'd say about 10 years.

en I've been visiting this island for almost 20 years, so I'm used to the traffic. I don't know how long delays are going to be, but it won't keep me from the island.

en And then Lamar -- it's a billboard company. It's all in small markets. Their business has been turning and coming back and it's trading at 15 times free cash flow, ... We think it's worth $20 (per share) and can get taken up between $60 and $70 a share ... You're starting to see the rebound in advertising. The billboard business, for them, continues to be pretty steady and it's rebounding. So, it's more specific for Lamar but the industry is performing better.

en The residents of western Queens have suffered greatly due to the lack of investment in our infrastructure. Flooded basements and thousands of dollars of property damage from ruptured water mains are far too common in Astoria and Long Island City.

en There are more queens crowned in one night in Dallas than in 400 years in Westminster Abbey.

en Staten Island didn't seem as dense as Queens and Brooklyn, even though they say it is being overpopulated and overdeveloped. We didn't get that sense at all. Then Glenn said, 'I think I love Staten Island.' It was the most hilarious thing.

en When we upgraded PeopleSoft in early July, it appeared to us that after a long period of darkness, there was light at the end of the tunnel. [With the subsequent quarter in July] we believed this case much more strongly. This quarter however is, in our view, a landmark quarter as the company has now clearly emerged from the tunnel.

en We know they're out there and we pay attention. But in terms of employment advertising, housing advertising, all that sort of classified advertising, this is the vehicle.

en The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today's congressional leaders.


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