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What we're trying to do is establish a holiday tradition downtown, sort of like Westlake Center in Seattle.

John Hodgson

Trey has done a fantastic job in Minneapolis, where WCCO has performed a miraculous turnaround to become the market's leader. I'm confident his creativity, laser-like focus and discipline will be of great value to us in Seattle as we prepare for the local launch of The CW Network in this market.

Tom Kane

I thought that was appropriate because Mike Holmgren is the coach of Seattle, and was Reggie's coach in Green Bay.

Jeffrey Lurie

The shopping experience offered by Seattle-based Nordstrom is world-class. It is part of our commitment to bring the best in retail concepts to our customers.

Al Ferris

I call it push and pester, or grab and clutch, ... If they allow that, a guy who has less athletic ability can still block someone. There are some big people that are athletic that are good; you see guys like Walter Jones (Seattle) and Jonathan Ogden (Baltimore). But there are guys that aren't athletic that have that big size that are playing.

Pat Morris

Were excited to be expanding in Seattle. It helps create a more vibrant biotech hub for the region.

Carol Pawlak

This is not the Seattle we know and love.

Paul Schell

I didn't think I would be going to Seattle, but I knew there was a trade out there. I'm excited. It's a fresh new start for me. Hopefully I can just start there and help them win some more games. I like their style of play, they run up and down the floor and that fits my game.

Chris Wilcox

It was a great offer, and I'm so appreciative of them for their interest. The opportunity for more playing time was probably in Minnesota, but I'm glad Seattle matched. It shows me that I'm important to them and a part of their future plans. I'm excited to come back to the team that gave me an opportunity and excited to get back into the green and gold.

Damien Wilkins

Seattle was just not very good. Nothing against the city or coaching staff or anything like that. I just needed a change and it was nice to get this one.

Scott Spiezio

I picked Carolina at the beginning of the season to get to the Super Bowl. Seattle does not impress me.

Bob Scucci

We're looking for additional victims in the entire greater Seattle area.

Michael Chiu

I am ecstatic. Seattle is where I wanted to be...it's where I've always wanted to be. It feels like home to me. I am excited about the direction of the team, and am very, very happy to be here.

Raul Ibanez

I really enjoyed it ... to come back home, get some Seattle weather, was nice to see.

Larry Tripplett

This is embarrassing as hell -- to be playing out what is essentially a shooting match between Seattle City Hall and Seattle legislators before the 6 million people of the state. We don't have the alignment around some really critical community priorities that I think other cities do.

Steve Leahy

We were raised together in Seattle and San Francisco until Dickie was 12.

Carol Channing

Right now, all the mega-yachts go right past us to Seattle or Alaska. This will bring those people right here. Guys like Larry Ellison can back his 175-foot baby in here.

Simon Snellgrove

We think big Black Rock has to be built. If it's $4 billion, it's $4 billion. Let's get on with it. I wear a Mariner hat and I get over to that ballpark in Seattle sometimes. I don't think that stadium got put up without state help, and it's not cheap.

Tom Carpenter

[Seattle Mayor Paul Schell referred to the incident as] a senseless act of violence. ... horrible tragedy.

Norm Stamper

This ship brought vice, violence, protection and cash into Seattle.

Lorraine Mcconaghy

We are thrilled to have the chance to face a team we are familiar with in Seattle Pacific.

Greg Sparling

You take Seattle and lay it over Colorado and that's Homer.

Asia Freeman

You tell people, 'I'm an orange badge at Microsoft,' and pretty much everybody in the tech industry knows exactly what that means. It's practically a subculture in Seattle.

Howard Wu

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

John J. Sweeney

[He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of my confidence in Seattle, ... even though I worked my (rear end) off every day on hitting, blocking, receiving – everything.

Miguel Olivo

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Dave Grohl

Because we are on schedule and under budget to complete the Seattle monorail plan in August for a November vote we wanted to take this action now.

Tom Weeks

By showing the importance of Seattle Center, it's a very strong argument as to why the Center needs to keep on its path of continuous improvement.

Bill Block

If you think about how Northgate and North Seattle Community College face each other across the freeway, it's a very beneficial market for Northgate to tap with restaurants.

Patricia Johnson

The primary focus of Amgen research in Seattle is inflammation and oncology.

Carol Pawlak

This is what it's all about: exceptional coffee beans, expertly roasted, perfectly ground, and freshly brewed. We want customers from Seattle to Miami, from Boston to L.A., and all points in between, to visit us tomorrow for a complimentary cup of the best coffee they've ever had.

Jim Alling

History has been made in Seattle, as the allegedly irresistible forces of corporate economic globalization were stopped in their tracks.

Lori Wallach

It was disappointing to lose this one. But we have to go up to Seattle and hope things fall in our favor.

Carrie Graf

They were the first ones to offer me a contract. I just wanted to hear from other teams. It was my decision. I liked Seattle the best. I like the people very much.

Felix Hernandez

That's the challenge for Seattle. There's new competition on the horizon. It's more likely to come from a smaller market.

John Boyd

Ray Charles is a giant. He was one of my mentors. He would write arrangements in Braille, and translate it to me. At 14 and 16 we used to sit in Seattle on those rainy days and dream about what would happen.

Quincy Jones

In the Beginning was the beginning of quilting in Seattle. It is the first place I went, long before I did a store or ever thought of a store, and I have been in business for 25 years.

Judy Martin

This doesn't really change our long-term growth strategy. We'll continue to center around Seattle.

Bill Ayer

It depends on what fit is better. Scott is willing to wait. If all else is equal and Seattle is still there, he would prefer to play in his hometown.

Joe Urbon

I can see the headline now. Seattle wins Super Bowl. No one saw it.

Ted Buehner

There's nothing wrong with having Carolina and Seattle in there. As a football fan, the four best teams are playing this weekend.

Terry Bradshaw

We're just continuing to try to prepare as best as we can, ... Seattle or the NFL won't push back the game because our head coach is having some health issues. We still have to get ready to go and play.

Trev Faulk

I'm certainly expecting a similar kind of cacophony in Prague that we witnessed in Washington, Seattle and almost every other major economic and political event in recent memory.

Jerome Booth

Last year at this point, there was great concern about the water supply, especially for municipal water in the Seattle area. Now this year, you don't have to think about it.

Scott Pattee

That fault wasn't even recognized 40 years ago when the existing Seattle geology map was produced.

Derek Booth

Maybe it's because of Boeing. Maybe it's because people here have a technical bent. Or maybe it's because it's just plain fun. Whatever the reason, Seattle is a mecca for modeling.

Tim Nelson

We were the Seattle Moroners, ... not the Mariners.

Joe Simpson

Seattle has enjoyed a great reputation the last few years and Pittsburgh is on the verge of that and the Super Bowl is a great conduit for that.

Kevin Evanto

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

Dennis Green

I'm glad to be back in Seattle playing before our amazing Storm fans. The fans in Seattle make me feel so welcome, and I perform at my best when they're with me.

Betty Lennox

[Hurricane Katrina has challenged Seattle officials to] take a look at all our assumptions, ... We assumed we could supply all our emergency services. We need to see where emergency services did not work in New Orleans, and be prepared.

Greg Nickels

We have filed a proposal for the discount to our headquarters (in Seattle, the United States) and it is now being finalized.

Tony Chen

Seattle is certainly in the running. It has a fair shot.

Gene Orza

The best news is that we didn't lose him. Steve likes playing in Seattle. He's the cornerstone of our line with [left tackle] Walter [Jones].

Bill Laveroni

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Sam Singer

This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.

Chuck Armstrong

[Commenting on the Seattle debut of] Boys Night Out, ... 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

This set of recommendations is ecologically responsible, but it's not putting a hair shirt on Seattle.

Denis Hayes

He looks a lot like A.P. Indy. It's a much more refined version of Seattle Slew (A.P. Indy's sire).

Bill Farish

We have a lot of improving to do. We haven't even scratched the surface of what this team can accomplish. It's a great win. Great to be 1-0, but we have 15 more rounds to go and Seattle is staring us in the face.

Keith Brooking

I watched him at Seattle.

Darnell Dockett

I'm happy to be a part of the win. That's why I came to Seattle Pacific. That's why I play basketball. Maybe it's to make that shot if I'm called on to make it, maybe it's to play defense, maybe it's to take a charge or maybe it's to sit on the bench and cheer for the guys. So be it. It's all about winning.

Jared Moultrie

Why are there so many highly educated people? The answer is this area can attract them. Seattle is a nice place to live. For its size, it has a lot of cultural amenities as well as natural amenities, and we're fortunate to have some pretty interesting companies, Boeing and Microsoft being just two of them.

Dick Conway

The photo may not be exactly what the Pittsburgh Opera expects, but it carries out the wager and reflects the feelings of all of us at Seattle Opera.

Speight Jenkins

The fact that Seattle is so far away is a significant one.

Mark Wiley

I didn't get coaching in Seattle like I did this year, ... except for my first two years.

Shawn Springs

It definitely has been a bit of a drawback playing in Seattle. If he were in a bigger market and not on the West Coast, he'd probably do a lot better marketing-wise.

Bob Dorfman

You often see that in inner-city schools where there's so much pressure on those educators to meet federal [adequate yearly progress] requirements ... it's about getting the lowest proficient kids to a proficient level, and they let their high-achieving kids slide back. I would salute Seattle.

William Sanders

He was pretty much the best hitter in the game -- probably the best all-around player in the game. He was as good a player at 17 as he was in Seattle. He's just a natural baseball player.

David Bell

Those 224 companies operate more than 4,700 facilities in Boston, Miami and Seattle alone.

Stephen Carter

This is what Seattle is doing — getting architects, builders, designers, etc., on the same page. This is huge.

Sarah Susanka

We're all human beings and we all got feelings. I just felt good about Seattle. They brought me and my wife out there and took us to dinner. No one had ever done that for me before.

Rick Brunson

I would love to finish my career in Houston, to be back in front of the hometown fans and in front of my family. You never know what can happen. I'm happy in Seattle right now. But at the same time, there's no place like home.

Rashard Lewis

We are taking a look at all the communication systems and plans and redundancies that we have in place in Seattle.

Barb Graff

Combining the geology with the ground motion data will produce a much better estimate of shaking effects in Seattle than is now available.

Craig Weaver

Seattle has not adjusted the tax threshold since 1994, ... The raised threshold offsets the effect of inflation since that time.

Greg Nickels

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

Rob Brzezinski

We just didn't have people step up and hit shots. And you've got to be able to hit shots to beat a good team like Seattle Pacific.

Joddie Gleason

My whole thought process has been this. Not one person picked us to make the playoffs. Not one person thought we'd beat Seattle in that series.

Van Chancellor

Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.

Chuck Armstrong

Seattle is a pretty laid-back place, but we don't like what China's doing and we believe this is a unique opportunity for us to say something.

Brian Stolz

We were coming back into the States from Canada when that all went down. I didn't come up with the idea. The idea came from the promoters. I said, "Yeah, let's do it." Seattle was the right place for that. That was the original home base for me, so we had a great turnout.

Robert Cray

The more exposures you get, the more exposures to your brand -- the Seattle brand -- the more people come to discover what a great community we live in.

John Powers

The divestitures required by the department will ensure that competition at movie theaters in the affected parts of Chicago, New York, Boston, Seattle and Dallas is preserved.

Thomas Barnett

I'm excited to see where we're at after two more good weeks of training. I think we're coming off of a real positive performance at Seattle, and this will be the best field of runners top to bottom that we'll compete against since this program has gotten started.

Kelly Sullivan

It really is time for Seattle to move K-12 education to the top of the priority list because of the severe challenges facing the district.

Joe Quintana

How many teams are better than them in the NFC? I count one (record-wise), but I think the Bears are too tough for Seattle as long as they don't (mess) it up too bad on offense in the game.

Paul Zimmerman

We have deployed in over 350 Starbucks locations. The majority of them are installed in Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, Dallas, New York and Houston.

Ali Tabassi

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Nancy Idland

If this allows someone not to have to make the trip to Seattle, that's what we want to do is service the people of Moses Lake.

Mary Hansen

Seattle is really on the national and international map in terms of green building. People in other cities call to ask what's happening here.

Diane Sugimura

For our organization it's a rivalry game, because every year it's always a battle for the division. It's us and Seattle.

Anthony Hargrove

If the Seahawks do win the Super Bowl, I expect to be busy for weeks afterward, because it will have been an important event in Seattle sports that people will want to remember.

Jack Terry

[They still live in Portland, a Pacific Northwest city 150 miles south of Seattle.] Portland has pretensions to being culturally informed, ... I got enough to hire my cokehead friends to design it.

Courtney Taylor

It was one of the greatest sports events in Seattle history.

Joe Callero

With her play tonight, you can see why Melissa earned a scholarship to play for Seattle Pacific next year. But we are a deep team that has several players who do many different things well.

Beth Campbell

Then, in 1978, I tried out for a role in a real play -- 'Short Eyes' at the Seattle Group Theatre. I got a bit part, a prison guard, with one line: 'On the gate!' .

William Hall

He's been very visible. He doesn't just sit in Seattle. He gets involved.

Ricardo Garcia

Chief Seattle was invited aboard the Decatur as an honored guest on Oct. 31, 1855. He reviewed the great guns, and the cannonade was shown to him.

Lorraine Mcconaghy

Last year was more of an eye-opening experience. We were wide-eyed walking around Seattle. Now we know what it's all about and we're going there with a purpose.

Ali Mann

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Teddy Atlas

We need to spend more time here, ... If the show is about personal relationships, we need to expand that and show what their relationship is to the city. I'm certainly lobbying for that. I'm falling in love with the city, and I want to spend more time up here. ... There's nothing that makes you feel like Seattle in Burbank.

Patrick Dempsey

She has the ability to step her game up in big games. She did that last year in Seattle when Sue Bird went out. She showed how good she was. When Sue couldn't play with her broken nose, she came in and played extremely well.

Brian Winters

Many of the Comfort Kits we hand out contain friendly notes from Seattle students that bring smiles and sometimes tears to the faces of Gulf youth. It means a lot to the children to know that others care about them as they continue to process what happened.

Denise Barrett

We all grew up pretty fast. When we moved to Seattle, I just realized that family is important. They are the key.

Julie Leland

They met on the streets of Seattle, ... The reason they chose the name The Coats, there were a lot of rainy nights on the streets, so they got overcoats and wore them. They are young. Very refreshing.

Ann Andrews

That last start was so frustrating. I don't know if I overlooked Seattle or what. Maybe I lost my edge a little. But that last game was not me. This is the way that I'm supposed to throw the ball.

Dan Haren

This is an opportunity, we cannot allow this to be another Seattle, another Cancun.

Celso Amorim

I had a horrible game. Now our backs are against the wall. We've got to go there [Seattle] and win two.

Sheryl Swoopes

For so many years, international finance has been the domain of a very small elite in a few countries. The message the G-8 leaders got from Seattle is that they need to make their policy discussions more relevant to the general public.

Greg Mastel

I don't know if Seattle had the assets or the queer community to make it a reality. There was an informal need but it wasn't the right time.

Thomas Shannon

We studied the properties of galaxies close to the Milky Way instead of looking billions of light years away. It's like traveling from Seattle to Portland, Ore., rather than from Seattle to New York, to measure the Earth's curvature.

Fabio Governato

Previous wireless 'teaming agreements' have worked successfully, with recent successful execution and wireless implementation at SeaTac Airport [Seattle] and The Big Dig [highway construction project in Boston].

Peter Dobrow

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

The show is a kind of rest period for us. You know the old saying: 'you have to get the show on the road' because it's going to L.A., Seattle, or wherever, and they have to load in the next morning.

Danny Nilles

And the one we're really excited about is the one we're bringing in from Seattle, Groove For Thought. They are the current National Harmony Sweepstakes Champions, with a style that is jazz-based.

Jeff Petersen

I had 12 great years in Pittsburgh, and that one doesn't matter. During my time with Seattle, they were great people, great teammates and I liked the town, the town was good to me. It just wasn't for me.

Franco Harris

I had a girl in Seattle sing 'Hopelessly Devoted to You,' you know, Olivia Newton-John from Grease and she just killed it, she rocked it out. That was cool.

Michelle Mcnulty

There's a better Bucky to look forward to. Unfortunately, it's probably not going to be in Seattle.

Joe Speed

But Seattle is growing fast and we're going to need a lot more than roads and bridges to handle the population that's already there.

Kristina Hill

It was initially offered so that people could be identified as the Bill Gates in Seattle, Wash., as opposed to the Bill Gates from down the street.

John Heine

The (Seattle) Office of Emergency Management's aim is to make sure the city operates as a whole in the event of an earthquake or other disaster, even though it is made up of 28 independent departments. How do we coordinate the delivery of all the necessary services? Landslides are unfolding disasters ... (and) good practice for us, for making sure that that critical coordination is in place.

Barb Graff

This is about the legacy of Seattle and protecting the beauty of its parks. Once you have ruined your parks, it is hard to get them back.

Diane Duthweiler

The idea is to go out and be a part of the community. To help clean up the yards here and help kids get the idea that there are Muslims in Seattle and they're just like you.

Benjamin Levy

Seattle is not a big enough city to support two separately owned and operated dailies indefinitely.

Stephen Lacy

If you're in Seattle for long enough, it's just something you learn to accept and embrace it. I want to ride my bike for exercise, and I enjoy it. The weather ain't gonna stop me.

Nick Bond

This is of critical importance as we move forward with the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement, ... especially for the West Seattle to downtown corridor.

Richard Conlin

In wake of that (documents outlining surveillance of the Seattle-area groups), we wondered if there was current surveillance of other peace groups.

Doug Honig

Some of these firms claim to be located in Bellevue and Seattle, but we find they're not at the addresses given. Often they're in Canada.

Chuck Cross

Grant Park has a 10-week summer season. I don't often play the summer opera (Seattle Opera's August production), and I have no vacation time.

David Gordon

We felt pretty good that we were going to be able to get the player. We have a lot of respect for Seattle and their organization, and this wasn't meant to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's just business.

Rob Brzezinski

Everyone is driving around Seattle with them on their cars. The whole city is behind the team.

Shannon Burley

Football is just not my thing. But I'd like to see Seattle win. It's better for the city.

Bruce Wells

It's a great vote of confidence in Seattle and will help our recruiting efforts for startups. People always want to see the area has momentum and that there are alternatives for their careers if they move to a new region.

Bob Nelsen

He's going to sign with Seattle. They're announcing it today. They favorably impressed him.

Alan Nero

Up here in Seattle . . . you can walk into a mom-and-pop place and get a great pizza, but everyone in there has purple hair and nose rings.

Dwayne Northrop

It grows the talent pool. It encourages employees looking from California, Seattle or Boston — when they're looking to move to Austin for a tech job, they want to know their other options so they can grow their career.

Larry Warnock

There's no romantic Seattle or Manchester-like offensive of musical solidarity feeling in Bristol.

Beth Gibbons

The Seattle film community is at a grass-roots level. Large film communities used to be small ones. The industry has to be created here.

Eddie Smith

We've got offers from a number of markets to move the show. Denver would like us. Miami would really like us. Seattle is very interested.

Ed Schultz