Chicago Quotes - Page 7

• I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

  Candace Bushnell

  Space, Age, Three

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• When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

  Nelsan Ellis

  Art, School, Desire

  "Nelsan Ellis, ‘True Blood’ Star, Returns To Chicago To Direct ‘HooDoo Love’". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2012.

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• The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

  Jesse Jackson

  School, Cities, Community

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

  Donald Johanson

  Father, Real, Two Year Olds

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

  Johnny Galecki

  Sports, Growing Up, Night

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• There are so many good venues in Chicago.

  Lee DeWyze

  Venues

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• Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Moving, Order

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• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Police Violence, People, Choices

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Running, White, Black

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.

  Steve Daines

  Montana, Size, Chance

  "New members: D-E-F", www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

  Carmen Electra

  Dance, Children, Love Is

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• Food in Chicago is the best.

  Lee DeWyze

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• I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Brother, Father, Community

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Aug 08, 2013

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• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  Jack Steinberger

  Army, Special, Mit

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• The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Roles, Records

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

  Al Capone

  Fire, Hung

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• I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

  Judd Nelson

  Fun, Cities, Great Cities

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

  Robbie Q. Telfer

  Thinking, Competition, Done

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• I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this law thing." I mean, sure, it helps you read a contract, but I can read a contract regardless. It's just common sense, contracts.

  Rich Fulcher

  School, Mean, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

  Matthew McGrory

  Shoes, Running Out Of Time, Shows

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• I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

  America Ferrera

  Musical, Saws, Firsts

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• Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drug, Baggage, Detroit

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• Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

  Bill Ayers

  Our Generation, People, Generations

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• Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.

  Charlie Barnett

  Doors, Theatre, Actors

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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