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“Eat a good breakfast. It really pays off. Pay your
bills on time. Recycle. Make your bed. Aim high. Say
thank you to people and actually really mean it. Ask
for help when you need it, and put your phone away
at the dinner table.”
— Advice from Oprah Winfrey’s May 11 commencement address at the Annenberg School
for Communication and Journalism.
“What do you think the Incredible Hulk eats?”
“Incredible things!”
— The creative answer of a third-grader at Fruit Valley Elementary School during a visit
by Gov. Jay Inslee to Vancouver on April 16. Inslee reportedly was so impressed by the
answer that he named the girl his Washingtonian of the Day.
“We probably would have
offered to give them some
products for free.”
— Marc Barros, CEO of Moment, a Seattle firm that
makes mobile-phone camera lenses, after learning that
the newest Steven Soderbergh movie was shot on an
iPhone 7 using his attachable smartphone lenses.
“My wife went HOLY CATS!”
— Notoriously exuberant Seattle television personality
and gardening guru Ciscoe Morris, about the flurry of
emails that poured in after late night comedian John
Oliver aired a segment called “You Wish You Loved
Anything As Much as Ciscoe Morris Loves Everything.”
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