Chicago Quotes - Page 8

• I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Vintage, Games, Olivia

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• If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

  Steven Yeun

  Jobs, Scene, Ifs

  "Q&A – Steven Yeun (Glenn)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

  Leona Lewis

  Musical, Film, Backgrounds

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

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• The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they’re performed. I’m born and raised in the Midwest, and my family’s been here for generations. This is where I’m from and how I think, and that’s reflected in the music I make.

  Pokey LaFarge

  Song, Attitude, Thinking

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• As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

  Michelle Malkin

  Persistence, Media, President

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• Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

  John Green

  Writing, Love Is, Trying

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• I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

  Clay Guida

  Mma, Unions, Carpenter

  "UFC on FX 4: Clay Guida Exclusive on 'The Big Lebowski,' Gray Maynard, and More". Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Canada, Gorgeous

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• You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.

  Felicia Pearson

  Real, People, Fake

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.

  Steven Yeun

  College, Nerd, Kalamazoo

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

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• Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

  Jesse Spencer

  Cities, Scene, Melbourne

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• We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Children

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

  Jane Byrne

  Government, Long, People

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• Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain;
  enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days.
  And you say you are tired?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Running, Tired, Cities

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Home, School

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Dine In, Philadelphia

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.

  Al Sharpton

  Country, Eight, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.

  Stephanie Miller

  Morning, New York, Growing Up

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.

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• I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

  Lauren Holly

  Jobs, Husband, Moving

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• Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

  Joan Cusack

  Hockey, Boys, Play

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• L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Real, Home, Doe

  "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

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• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

  Charles Frazier

  Teenage, Wind, Two

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• It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

  Joan Cusack

  Nice, Tv Shows, Parent

  "RT Interview: Joan Cusack on War, Inc., the Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

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• I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

  Joan Cusack

  New York, Culture, Towns

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