Chicago Quotes - Page 31

• Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Space, Cities, People

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Likes, Sleeves, Knows

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• All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

  Barack Obama

  Life, Men, Together

  "Barack Obama says presidential library will be sited on Chicago's South Side" by Ben Jacobs, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2015.

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• And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Several people inspired me like Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, the whole Cash Money camp, the No Limit camp, DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, LL Cool J, I listened to all type of sh*t. I listened to R&B like Teena Marie, just good music - anybody that made good music. When I was growing up out west I listened to Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict. They were the "it" artists in Chicago. I wanted to be like them on TV and all of that so that's how it all started.

  King Louie

  Growing Up, Artist, People

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• I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do?

  Bernie Sanders

  Life, School, Fighting

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• I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Brother, Towers, Safe

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• Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

  Lady Gaga

  Fire, Today, Busy

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Aug 03, 2015

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• Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.

  Michael Sucsy

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince to read that story nowadays, but I published it with an odd photo I'd found in a junk shop, and at least I still like the picture. I had a few things in the school paper, and then I got published in a small literary magazine. I hoped I would one day get published in The New Yorker, but I never allowed myself to actually believe it. Getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Believe, School

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'

  Ernest K. Gann

  School, Thinking, After Hours

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• I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.

  King Louie

  Years, Roots, East

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• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  Aasif Mandvi

  New York, Thinking, America

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

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• L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

  Matt Walsh

  Kids, People, Insane

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

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• Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

  Kathy Reichs

  Witty, Real, Memorable

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• The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Unique, Crime Novels

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• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

  Andre Dubus

  Daughter, Morning, New York

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

  Will McDonough

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, New York, Mistake

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• Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  New York

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...

  Rand Paul

  Party, Cutting, Years

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

  Jay Leno

  Airports, People, Weapons

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• There were a lot of times in the Cleveland and Chicago organizations when I did something, they wanted to make sure the camera was there. I really didn't want that. This isn't something my parents told me to do. Or something my family told me to do. Or do things for publicity. I do this on my own. I do this from my heart.

  Albert Belle

  Heart, Organization, Parent

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• It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was a badass in Chicago before the movies ever came out. I was a badass on the football field - that's why they call me "the Hammer." I don't lean back on one particular picture, because I've done so many of them. But they all have the same common thing: I'm a badass.

  Fred Williamson

  Football, Badass, Character

  Source: torontoist.com

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• I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

  Albert Belle

  Writing, Media, Cleveland

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