Chicago Quotes - Page 24

• I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

  Deena Kastor

  Powerful, Winning, Thinking

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• A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

  Bertrand Russell

  New York, Past, Asia

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.555, Psychology Press

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• The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.

  Peter Haggett

  Religious, Book, Unique

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• I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Thinking, Utah

  "Michael Jordan Offers Scalding if Not Scolding Comments at Hall Induction" by Rick Morrissey, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Years, Perspective

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• I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Dream, Heart

  "NPR Skips Over Conservative/GOP Critique of Obama Olympics Bid". www.newsbusters.org. October 3, 2009.

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• For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

  Jennifer Beals

  Boxing, Code, Knows

  Windy City Pride Interview, February 04, 2011.

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• If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.

  Goldie

  Edm, House, Needs

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• When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

  Buddy Guy

  Dimes, Found, Quarters

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Military, War, June

  "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

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• I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

  John Travolta

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

  Norman Mailer

  Cities, Waiting, Nausea

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• San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

  Dave Matthews

  Flower, Hair, Cities

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• I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Dad, Father

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• They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.

  Kenny Johnson

  Moving, People, Cooking

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• It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

  Will Rogers

  Cities, Shooting, World

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

  Harold Washington

  Race, People, Mayors

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• Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . It's a nifty volume, not only because it gives you a sense of what our most highly regarded military theorists are thinking but because sometimes what they're thinking is the last thing you'd expect. Especially interesting is a section called 'Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations,' which tells us: 'Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction' and 'Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.'

  David L. Ulin

  Military, War, Marine

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• There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

  Michael Wilbon

  Summer, Memorial Day, Cities

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

  Conor Oberst

  Country, Memories, Sunshine

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• Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Play

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• My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Jobs, Law, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.

  Immortal Technique

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

  Virginia Madsen

  Basketball, Growing Up, Team

  "Virginia Madsen on smelling Christopher Walken, getting tax advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and more". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. July 19, 2013.

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