Seattle Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

  Jonathan Raban

  Blue, Cities, Manners

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

  George Stigler

  School, Years, Next Year

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• It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Fun, Games

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• Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

  Lee Henderson

  Song, Proud, Washington State

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• A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

  James Keller

  Sleep, Judging, Honor

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• My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

  Ron Reagan

  Beautiful, Morning, Air

  "Interview With Justin Falconer; Interview With Ron Reagan Jr". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  Jack Irons

  Musician, Jam, Pearls

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• If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.

  Richard Branson

  Party, Together, Evening

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• I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Years, Sound

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• I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

  Dorothy Malone

  School, Born, Grades

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

  Jeff Ament

  Sex, Taken, Kids

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• I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven’t missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Football, Player, Two

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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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• 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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• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

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• When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

  Steven Pinker

  Cities, People, Interesting

  "My week" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

  Apolo Ohno

  Growing Up, Cities, Competition

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• If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

  Moby

  Rocks, People, Band

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• I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.

  Tom Leykis

  Home, Night, Men

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• If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

  Quincy Jones

  New York, Guy, Band

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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