Chicago Quotes - Page 6

• I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

  Nick Offerman

  New York, Integrity, Thinking

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• I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.

  John Landis

  New York, Winter, Thinking

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• The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

  Steven Levitt

  Sex, Lying, Data

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• Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

  George Will

  Fans, Tissues, Scar

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• Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

  Bill Murray

  Self, Actors, Tough

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  Quincy Jones

  Block, Heart, Ghetto

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• No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

  Bethany McLean

  Cities, Privatization

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• Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

  George Will

  Leadership, Country, Jobs

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• Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Support, Community

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

  Harold Washington

  Cities, United States, Never Change

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

  Quincy Jones

  Brother, Boys, Territory

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  Quincy Jones

  Thug, Color, Car

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• I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

  Harold Washington

  Government, Cities, Watches

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• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Cities

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• I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

  Emmylou Harris

  Thinking, Soul, Fans

  "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  Frank Rich

  Break Up, New York, Kids

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• No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Differences, Dukes, Manners

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• I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

  Ana Castillo

  Whole Life, Displacement, Whole

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• Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Citizens, Tonight

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• He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

  Duke Snider

  Team, Games, Feet

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• We worked six days a week [on the The Breakfast Club], so you have one day off. So on that Saturday night, it's not like we could all go out and have a drink because Molly [Ringwald ] and Michael [Hall] weren't old enough. And Ally [Sheedy] pretty much kept to herself. So Emilio and I, every Saturday night, would go into Chicago because we were shooting outside of Chicago in Des Plaines. It's so funny, because even though we might be adversaries in the film, we certainly weren't off-camera. He's a very funny guy.

  Judd Nelson

  Night, Guy, One Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Ideas, Guy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  Edwin Black

  Country, Garden, San Francisco

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• I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

  Bernie Siegel

  Football, Team, Sunday

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• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  Harold Ramis

  Good Life, Artistic Life, People

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

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