Seattle Quotes - Page 5

• Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.

  Joe Montana

  Phones, Cells, Shopping

  "Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2010.

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• What I love most about achieving whatever Ive achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter!

  Ross Mathews

  Follow Me, Achieve

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• Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, Should Have, Cities

  "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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• Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

  Patrick Ewing

  New York, Names, Hearing

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• I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

  David Cook

  Thinking, Sound, Music Education

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

  Alexis Denisof

  Summer, School, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

  Alexis Denisof

  College, Class, House

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

  Jon Fishman

  America, Band, Scene

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• I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

  Cam Gigandet

  School, Thinking, Time Zones

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• Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

  Paul Allen

  Sports, Football, Father

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• Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

  Donald Byrd

  Distraction, Productive

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• We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Numbers, People, Decision

  "Ezra Klein Interviews Ezekiel Emanuel on 'Death Panels' and D.C. Food". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

  Al Yankovic

  Musical, Albums, Band

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• I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

  Randy Johnson

  Scene, Type

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• I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

  Sheryl Lee

  Colorado, Twins, Twin Peaks

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• I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

  Stone Gossard

  Running, Thinking, Cities

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. Ocotober 17, 2008.

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

  Joey Santiago

  Influence, Scene, Grunge

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• I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.

  Michael Stipe

  Daughter, Doors, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obviously people in Seattle love a little more sun but also nothing is built for it, i miss my rain.

  Ed Murray

  Love, Rain, People

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• There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

  Ben Gibbard

  Wall, Firsts, Kind

  "Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie Unpack Chris Walla’s Departure and New Album ‘Kintsugi’". Interview with Kyle McGovern, www.spin.com. April 3, 2015.

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• It was just too hard from my standpoint to apply myself properly for the lessons from art school and also work 6 hours a day at the Ben Paris restaurant in downtown Seattle. There was just no time to have a life.

  Mike Royer

  Art, School, Paris

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing because you've got that passion; it was sort of a Celtic thing. The Irish and Scots they just go for it and not too worried about looking good. When I was in the states touring, I landed in Seattle to do a gig and one of the fans came to me and told me about Gary's death. It was very hard for me to carry on, it was awful.

  Jack Bruce

  Passion, Missing, Fans

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• I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

  Nick Hanauer

  Country, People, Effort

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

  Li Ang

  Iowa, California, People

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