Chicago Quotes - Page 32

• When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

  Harold Evans

  Two, Stanford University, People

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician? That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection!

  Roger Ebert

  Powerful, Reality, Bridges

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• In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand outside and chant anti-Romney slogans. Well, who says President Obama isn't creating any new jobs?

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Creating, New Job

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• I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

  Diane Nash

  Mother, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

  Harry Caray

  World, Someday, Cubs

  "Budweiser Turned Around This Incredible Cubs World Series Ad Overnight" by Michael Sebastian, www.esquire.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Kind, Standards

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I’m a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It’s such an awful way to live. [In Chicago] people want to get to know you for you. I feel like I can just breathe.

  Kristin Cavallari

  People, Way To Live, Want

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• The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

  Paul Samuelson

  Children, Memories, Doors

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• Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

  H. L. Mencken

  Novelists, Has Beens

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.500, Vintage

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• Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

  Jane Byrne

  Aggravation, Decline, Mayors

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• I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Community, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Play, Cities, People

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• You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man with the biggest arm. At the man, with the greatest charm, the man in Chicago who will do harm to the guy three doors down. Whatcha gonna do, when you know who? How ya gonna deal, with the man of steel? How ya gonna react to Sonnen's attack?

  Chael Sonnen

  Reflection, Men, Doors

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• Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

  Patrick Kane

  Sports, Games, People

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• In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in New York, you'll find something similar to it in Paris or Copenhagen or Chicago. But there is no place like New Orleans. So it's a must-see city because there's no explaining it, no describing it. You can't compare it to anything. So, far and away New Orleans.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

  Hannibal Buress

  Kind, Hometown, Mediums

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

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• The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

  George Stigler

  Issues, Intellectual, Mind

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• I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

  Mort Sahl

  Want, Buried, Executors

  "Political comedy pioneer Mort Sahl coming to Marin" by Stan Sinberg, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2004.

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• I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.

  Ted Nugent

  America, Office, Community

  "Outdoor Channel's Ted Nugent Says "Subhuman Mongrel" President Obama Should Be Convicted Of Treason" by Timothy Johnson, www.mediamatters.org. January 21, 2014.

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• The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

  Jared Diamond

  America, Steel, Stones

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

  Nick Offerman

  New York, Style, Used

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• Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

  Phil Jackson

  Teamwork, Attitude, Player

  "Phil Jackson's new book focuses a lot on (who else?) Kobe Bryant" by Mike Bresnahan, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

  Michelle Obama

  Men, Black, Sides

  "We Can Still Make a Difference". PEOPLE interview, people.com. December 29, 2014.

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• The intensity at a G Herbo show is crazy with fans especially in New York. It's always crazy and at home (Chicago) of course. The intensity is always crazy depending on the energy that I give, they feed off my energy.

  Lil Herb

  New York, Crazy, Home

  Source: thesource.com

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