Coffee Shop Quotes

• Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Problem, Stuck

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Coffee, Book, Writing

  "Dating Advice". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 9, 2005.

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• You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Song, Coffee, Believe

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.39, Penguin

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• I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

  Julie Roberts

  Coffee, Listening, Sitting

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• The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

  Raymond Chandler

  Strong, Coffee, Smell

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.369, Modern Library

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• The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Coffee, London, Best Place

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• Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Coffee, Names, Chocolate

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• Given enough coffee I could rule the world

  Terry Pratchett

  Coffee, World, Enough

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• I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about. I just think passion is such an embraceable thing, whether it's the guy in the coffee shop who's making the coffee or a bricklayer who loves making walls. I love watching people who love what they do, and I think that's very inspirational.

  Neil Jackson

  Wall, Coffee, Passion

  "Sleepy Hollow’s Neil Jackson: Embracing Passion and Health". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• If I go to the coffee shop and have a nice interaction with the barista, I don't know what that does for world peace, but we have to assume that in the great basket of goodness maybe that's one little micron or one little neutron that you've put in there.

  George Saunders

  Nice, Coffee, Littles

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• You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

  Aya Cash

  Coffee, Different, Antiques

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Coffee, Reading, Opportunity

  "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

  Joan Baez

  Coffee, Book, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.

  Felipe Esparza

  Coffee, Smell, America

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• I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Coffee, Book, Thinking

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• I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

  Marvin Bell

  Coffee, Writing, Brain

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• Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

  Tori Amos

  Coffee, Discipline, Zombie

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• I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Creativity, Mean

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• I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way.

  Mindy Kaling

  Crush, Falling In Love, Coffee

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• The coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your apartment probably wasn't heated, and so you went to the coffee shop. You went to the coffee shop because it was warm, because it was great Viennese coffee, and you went for the conversation and the company.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Sky, Vienna

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• If you think your demeanor is mellow or not particularly charismatic, the material can life you higher. So write everyday, and get onstage or in a coffee shop where they are doing open mice, anywhere you can perform even if that means starting your own open mic night - and be your own self.

  Dane Cook

  Coffee, Writing, Mean

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• If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Artist, Vienna

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.

  Tom Peters

  Coffee, Passion, Kids

  "The Peters Principles: An Interview with Tom Peters". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1, 1997.

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• I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

  Jewel

  Coffee, People, Singing

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