Chicago Quotes - Page 19

• News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, August

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• I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, People, Loser

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Home, Mean, Sister In Law

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, Beach, New York

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  John Green

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

  George Barr McCutcheon

  Men, Doorways, Stones

  George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.1476, Wildside Press LLC

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• Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Morning, White, House

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• Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

  Erik Larson

  Enemy, World, Disappointed

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.348, Random House

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• The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.

  Reggie Watts

  Growing Up, Stupid, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That's preposterous. Girls don't like me. I was born and raised in Chicago. The city made me. Punk is just because I've always been a smart-mouthed, wise-ass punk. I still am. I was the guy, if a bunch of football players were messing with one of my friends, I'd walk over there and spit in their face.

  CM Punk

  Girl, Wise, Football

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

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• Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Pride, People, Gracious

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• I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

  Nico Tortorella

  Art, School, College

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

  LaVell Edwards

  Leadership, Eye, Cocky

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• If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

  Grover Cleveland

  Army, Navy, Cards

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• Chicago is known as the Windy City, and Montana is called the Big Sky State, so I think that we should somehow combine the two to create the ultimate kite-flying experience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Thinking, Sky, Cities

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• Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

  Erik Larson

  Cities, Lakes, People

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

  Ishmael Reed

  Baseball, United States, Cubs

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• For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

  Duke Robillard

  Music, Country, Swings

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

  David Mamet

  Educational, Reading, Library

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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.

  Ted Lindsay

  Heart, Wings, Red

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• They have vilified me, they have crucified me - yes, they have even criticized me!

  Richard J. Daley

  Political, Criticism, Complaining

  "Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race" by William E. Schmidt, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1989.

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• Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

  Colleen Atwood

  Reality, Fairy Tale, Made

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• Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

  Richard J. Daley

  Government, Cities, Perfection

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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

  Sara Paretsky

  Giving, Church, Trying

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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.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Cities, Kansas City

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