Chicago Quotes - Page 15

• Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  John Green

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

  Andre Agassi

  Father, School, Order

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• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

  Jack Canfield

  Teacher, School, Cities

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• It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

  Tim Cahill

  Water, Sound, Judgment

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Up North, Facts

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

  Glen Hansard

  Years, Cities, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

  Bob Balaban

  Years, My Family, Theater

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• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Dad, Grandmother

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

  James Belushi

  Just Being, Theater, Plus

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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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• A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Bernie Goldberg on Obama's Strengths and Weaknesses in 2012 Election". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  Billy Gardell

  Class, Pittsburgh, Littles

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• I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

  America Ferrera

  Dancing, Singing, Done

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• On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Morning, Children

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• Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Science, Wind, Bears

  "Riders of the Purple Wage" (1967)

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• I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

  Matt Cameron

  Cities, People, Musician

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• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  Alice Hamilton

  Believe, Italian, Europe

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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• May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

  William Kunstler

  Memorable, Squares, Years

  "The emerging police state: resisting illegitimate authority". Book by William Moses Kunstler, p. 96, 2004.

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• First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

  Bill Kurtis

  Kansas, Friendly, Cows

  "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.

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