Chicago Quotes - Page 26

• And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Dream, Real

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Fate, Men

  1953 The Adventures of Augie March.

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• It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

  Erik Larson

  Taken, Dark, Roots

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, 2003.

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• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  Radhanath Swami

  Father, Struggle, Long

  "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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• The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

  Cass Sunstein

  Blessed, Yale, Law

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• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  Bernie Mac

  Stupid, Shoes, Voice

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• I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Cities, House

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

  John Madden

  Feelings, Soldier, Special

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• No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

  Michelle Malkin

  Circles, Smell, President

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• Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

  John Malkovich

  School, Design, Lines

  "John Malkovich On Set Interview RED". Group interview, collider.com. July 14, 2010.

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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.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

  Michael Nutter

  New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia

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• During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

  Mandy Patinkin

  People, Want, Directors

  "Mandy Patinkin: 'I Behaved Abominably'". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

  Barack Obama

  Winter, Night, Clouds

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• I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.

  Joan Didion

  Daughter, Art, Light

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.84, Zola Books

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• Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

  Neil Gaiman

  American Gods, Migraine, Happened

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

  Michael Shannon

  Play, People, Hollywood

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.

  Matt Walsh

  Sports, Home, Normal

  Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.

  Ryan McPartlin

  School, College, Illinois

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

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• Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

  Tom Waits

  Names, Musical, Sometimes

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

  David Mamet

  Library, Alma Mater, Public Library

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• To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

  Derrick Rose

  Strong, Believe, Differences

  "Nba Superstar Derrick Rose Donates $1 Million Dollars To After School Matters". www.nba.com. September 23, 2014.

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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.

  William Jackson

  Dirty, Character, Good Friend

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• I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Cheeseburger, Pizza

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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