#seattle

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#choice #either #formed #gang #had

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion. ↗

— Kenny G

#always #being #even #fusion #gigs

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#felt #finally #i #idea #outside

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#bought #camera #cents #dollars #fifty

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

— Adam Jones

#bands #call #far #grunge #i

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

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

#big #big bands #biggest #charlie #dealing

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

— Joey Santiago

#early 1990s #emerged #grunge #influence #major

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

#graduated #i #next #next year #northwestern