Chicago Quotes - Page 3

• So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

  Gordon Parks

  Fashion, Thinking, Trying

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• I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

  Lionel Hampton

  Growing Up, Harmony, Theory

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• I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

  George Stigler

  Wife, Married, Mack

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Ashley Montagu

  Swag, Cities, Pockets

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beautiful, Two, Piano

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Cities, Strange, Elegance

  Claes Oldenburg (1969). “Proposals for monuments and buildings, 1965-69”

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• Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

  Norman Mailer

  Blood, Cities, Towns

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.88, Random House

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• Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

  Studs Terkel

  Cities, City Of Chicago, American Cities

  "The Dick Cavett Show", June 9, 1978.

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• I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Years, Adjectives

  "Amy Poehler: Playing Politics, But Only On Television". NPR Interview, www.npr.org. October 20, 2011.

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• Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Cities, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5704, Delphi Classics

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• Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

  Nelson Algren

  Broken Heart, Cities, Broken Promises

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• Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

  Nelson Algren

  Spring, Cities, October

  "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.

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• This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Stupid

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• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

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• In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

  George Stigler

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• I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, People, Tonight

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• I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

  Richard Gere

  Jesus, Mean, Dollars

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• The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

  Jane Byrne

  Symphony, World, Orchestra

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• I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eight, Firefighter, Luck

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• I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Thinking, Special

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• Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Stars, Cowboy

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• The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

  Vernon Jordan

  Jobs, Lasts, Authority

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• Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

  Dennis Franz

  Christmas, White, White Christmas

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