Chicago Quotes - Page 15

• First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Cities, Village, Dirt

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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• Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.

  William L. Shirer

  New York, War, Home

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• The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

  Nat Hentoff

  Law, Irony, Constitution

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

  Ernest Hemingway

  White, Boxing, Saws

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• Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Party, Drinking, Mean

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• An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

  Karen Abbott

  Cities, Looks, Way

  Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.3, Random House

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• I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

  Christian Bale

  Cities, Sweat, Summertime

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

  John Candy

  Nuts, Bucks, Six

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", www.imdb.com. November 25, 1987.

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Railroads

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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• A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

  E. M. Forster

  Lakes, Cities, Type

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• I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Wish, Slavery

  David W. Bartlett, Abraham Lincoln (1860). “The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin”, p.190

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• The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.

  Jodi Kantor

  Home, People, Old Friends

  "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, wssbradio.org. January 6, 2017.

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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.

  Bob Balaban

  Sister, Niece, Father

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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.

  Kristen Bell

  New York, Fun, Real

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• Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

  Andy Borowitz

  Song, Funny Life, Would Be

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• A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."

  Matthew Rabin

  Numbers, Perfect, Competition

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• Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.

  Christie Hefner

  Gun, Years, Weather

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• Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

  James Bryce

  Cities, America

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• I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, College, Years

  President Obama's Address To The National Prayer Breakfast, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2009.

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• My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mother, Art, Culture

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• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  Ted Allen

  New York, Eye, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

  Eric Clapton

  Water, Band, Firsts

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• When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

  Diablo Cody

  School, Kids, Catholic

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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.

  Billy Corgan

  Winning, Cities, Organization

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• The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Dad, Thinking

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