Pacific Northwest, Seattle Times Sunday Magazine, August 31, 2008,

“Q”, about Quincy Jones, the quintessential music man

“Jones’ first album after signing as an artist with Mercury Records was ‘The Birth of a Band!’—recorded in 1959 (he was 26). When Count Basie heard the nucleus of this band in Eurpoe, he said, ‘What are you trying to do, put me out of business?’ ”

“The Newman Chronicles”, about Paul Newman in Vanity Fair magazine, September, 2008 edition

“…his close friend A. E. Hotchner. Hotch, as he’s known, says, ‘Paul seems happy when he’s on our rattletrap boat, Caca del Toro…’

…I asked him (Hotch) to describe Paul Newman in one word. ‘A loner. The most private man. He has a small group of loyal friends who are very protective of him. That said, Paul knows who he is and what he can do more clearly than anybody I have ever known. He’s a terrific businessman. He’s smart.’ “

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about.”

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well.”

“Q”, about Quincy Jones, the quintessential music man

“. . . Jones was an avid reader. With the encouragement of Neil Friel, a hipster trumpeter from Tacoma, he discovered L. Rom Hubbard’s Dianetics, Wilhelm Reich’s eccentric psychological/sexual theories, Baird Spalding’s ‘The Life and Teachings of Masters of the Far East’.

‘Somehow’, says Jones, ‘God gave me a great big perspective on the world, real early.’ ”

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought.”

Buddha

“The Newman Chronicles”, about Paul Newman in Vanity Fair magazine, September, 2008 edition

“Newman was one of Hollywood’s biggest celebrity activists. He had supported the civil rights movement from the very beginning, participating in sit-ins and demonstrations and giving money to Martin Luther King, Jr. He joined (Marlon) Brando in Gadsden, Alabama, Ku Klux Klan county, and together they also traveled to Sacramento to protest at a whites-only housing development.

As part of a select group of actors to take part in King’s March on Washington, Newman said in the O’Brien biography, ‘I think there’s too much fear of not speaking out…I’m proud I was there.’ “

David Icke, Freedom to Fascism, Disc Three

 “If we can give a name to what we believe, we’re in a prison, cause infinity has no name. It’s the force with no name. It just is. We just are. Once we start saying, ‘I’m a this. I’m a that.’, you…”