Chicago Quotes - Page 17

• I did see LES MIZ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love CHICAGO, too.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Incredibles, Les Miz

  "InDepth InterView: Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, New Music Video, JEWTOPIA, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Two, Parent

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Kids, Years, Oakland

  "Lupe Fiasco Considers Retirement After Chief Keef Spat" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2012.

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• When the entertainers of the right aren’t declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they’re pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call “the Chicago way.”

  Thomas Frank

  Thug, Wings, President

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

  Thomas Frank

  Years, Parking Meters, Together

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

  Frank Gehry

  Architecture, Visible

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• I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

  Kathy Griffin

  Night, Cities, Fans

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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.

  Steve Harvey

  Running, Thinking, People

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

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• I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

  David Hasselhoff

  Snow, Los Angeles, Grew Up

  "David Hasselhoff, ‘The Christmas Consultant’ Star, Reminisces About Childhood Holidays". Interview with Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

  John C. Reilly

  New York, Play, People

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

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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.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Team, Boston

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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.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Bud, Pittsburgh

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• In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

  Upton Sinclair

  Twilight, Vision, American Cities

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.37, First Avenue Editions

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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.

  Newt Gingrich

  Honesty, Government, President

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• From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Stuff, Selling

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Play, Bird, Bears

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

  Terry Bozzio

  Band, Firsts, Towns

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, New York, Smart

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• Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

  Henri Poincare

  Mean, Math, Piano

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• A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Heart, Doctors

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• For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

  Mary Schmich

  Pain, Medicine, Separation

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• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  Mary Schmich

  Dream, New York, Coffee

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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

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Memorable, Years

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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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