Seattle Quotes - Page 7

• As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

  Adam Jones

  Three, Band, Grunge

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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 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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• 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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• When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Fate, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 10, 2013

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• When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Sound, Band

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• I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.

  Cherie Priest

  Cheer, Fall, Mean

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.116, Spectra

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• At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

  Jonathan Raban

  Night, Light, Cities

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

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• One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

  Layne Staley

  Heart, Break Out, Band

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

  Tom Robbins

  Weather, Tea, Quality

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.145, Bantam

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• Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

  Eddie Vedder

  Vision, Sound, Band

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• One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, South Carolina, Favorite Places

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• Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.

  Charles Woodson

  Mean, Winning, Games

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• Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Sunday, Nfl

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• These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

  Nate Burleson

  Play, Nfl, Super Bowl

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• I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hands, Order

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• I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Lakes

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• Nick, You know, The first guy I met when I first got to Seattle, As an eighteen year old, You took me in. You believed in me from the beginning. You knew that I had potential. And every single day I know I could look at you And know that you respect me As a man, As a player, And you gonna ride with me to the end. I thank you.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Men, Mvp

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• I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Baseball, New York

  "A-Rod and Jeter: Rewind". Interview with Alan Schwarz, www.baseballamerica.com. February 19, 2004.

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• It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.

  Robert Spector

  Beautiful, Summer, Falling In Love

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