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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.
Author:
James Young
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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
Author:
James Young
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Author:
Alexander Woollcott
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I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.
Author:
Raquel Welch
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
Author:
Muddy Waters
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Author:
Harold Washington
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I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
Author:
Robin Tunney
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Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.
Author:
Lee Trevino
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
Author:
Mel Torme
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
Author:
Henry Taube
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In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.
Author:
George Stigler
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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
Author:
George Stigler
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I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
Author:
George Stigler
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The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
Author:
George Stigler
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My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
Author:
George Stigler
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But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
Author:
Lincoln Steffens
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Author:
Georg Solti
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The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
Author:
Nancy Sinatra
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And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Author:
Hank Sauer
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.
Author:
Richard Roeper
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I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
Author:
Frank Rich
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
Author:
Sally Rand
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And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
Author:
Sun Ra
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Author:
Jeremy Piven
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The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
Author:
William Petersen
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
Author:
William Petersen
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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
Author:
Gordon Parks
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Author:
Claes Oldenburg
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Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
Author:
Nichelle Nichols
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Author:
Jelly Morton
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
Author:
Kel Mitchell
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After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.
Author:
Kel Mitchell
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
Author:
Charles Merriam
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I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
Author:
Tim Meadows
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I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.
Author:
Matthew McGrory
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Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.
Author:
Will McDonough
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It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
Author:
George McCutcheon
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When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
Author:
Robert McChesney
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I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
Author:
Andrew Malcolm
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I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
Author:
Bill Lipinski
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
Author:
Ted Lindsay
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
Author:
Ted Lindsay
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
Author:
Abbey Lincoln
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
Author:
A. Liebling
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I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
Author:
Huey Lewis
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Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.
Author:
Leonard Levinson
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May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
Author:
William Kunstler
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My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
Author:
Harvey Korman
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On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.
Author:
Lawrence Klein
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
Author:
Ralph Kiner
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
Author:
Donald Johanson
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You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.
Author:
Helmut Jahn
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The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
Author:
William Jackson
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
Author:
James Iha
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
Author:
Steve Harvey
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Author:
Jim Harrison
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At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.
Author:
Mark Harmon
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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Author:
Lionel Hampton
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We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
Author:
Henry Hampton
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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
Author:
John Gunther
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I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
Author:
Brian Griese
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Author:
Dick Gregory
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My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
Author:
George Gobel
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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Author:
Newt Gingrich
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And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
Author:
Jami Gertz
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They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
Author:
Jerome Friedman
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Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
Author:
Dennis Franz
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There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
Author:
Bryan Ferry
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That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Author:
Jerry Femina
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I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
Author:
Dennis Farina
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I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.
Author:
Greg Evigan
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
Author:
John Ensign
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Author:
Rahm Emanuel
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Author:
Rahm Emanuel
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Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
Author:
Carmen Electra
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Author:
Billy Eckstine
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I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.
Author:
Dennis Eckersley
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That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
Author:
Dennis Eckersley
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And there was no money in Chicago for a band.
Author:
Santiago Durango
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Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Author:
Michael Douglas
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
Author:
Jeffrey Donovan
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Author:
Eugene Debs
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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
Author:
Alvin Dark
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Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.
Author:
Richard Daley
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I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.
Author:
Richard Daley
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I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
Author:
Richard Daley
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I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.
Author:
Richard Daley
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It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
Author:
Richard Daley
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We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.
Author:
Richard Daley
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I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
Author:
Joan Cusack
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In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.
Author:
James Cronin
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My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
Author:
James Cronin
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Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
Author:
James Cronin
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While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
Author:
James Cronin
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
Author:
Billy Corgan
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I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Author:
Gary Cole
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Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.
Author:
Pat Colander
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I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
Author:
Sandra Cisneros
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
Author:
Christo
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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
Author:
Matt Cameron
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I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.
Author:
Wilford Brimley
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I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.
Author:
Jordana Brewster
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
Author:
Lara Boyle
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I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
Author:
Sarah Bernhardt
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Author:
Saul Bellow
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This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.
Author:
Kristen Bell
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Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.
Author:
Gerry Beckley
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
Author:
Dave Barry
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
Author:
Bob Balaban
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I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
Author:
Bob Balaban
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
Author:
Bob Balaban
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I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
Author:
Colleen Atwood
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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.
Author:
Colleen Atwood
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
Author:
Luther Allison
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In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
Author:
Luther Allison
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
Author:
Ted Allen
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
Author:
Ted Allen
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Author:
Ted Allen
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Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
Author:
Nelson Algren
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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
Author:
Nelson Algren
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In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.
Author:
Steve Albini
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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.
Author:
Steve Albini
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My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.
Author:
Andre Agassi
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
Author:
Jack Adams
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On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
Author:
Jack Adams
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
Author:
Jack Adams
