Chicago Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  R. Kelly

  Streets, Street Performers, Paid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Texas, People, Heat

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

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• I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

  Bill Lipinski

  Wife, Leaving, Want

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• I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

  Jeremy Piven

  Play, Way, Made

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

  Jeremy Piven

  Stage Actors, Actors, Stage

  "Actor Jeremy Piven". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 2, 2013.

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• Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

  Sara Paretsky

  Country, Mean, Magic

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• I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

  William Petersen

  Growing Up, Years, President

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• The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

  William Petersen

  Wife, Downtown, Goes On

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• I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.

  Chance the Rapper

  Beautiful, Hate, Thinking

  "Chance the Rapper says violence has made Chicago a 'scummy' city" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. October 30, 2013.

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• I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.

  Chance the Rapper

  Dope, Thinking, People

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• It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

  Chance the Rapper

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

  Michael Rooker

  Drama, School, Makeup

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

  Richard Roeper

  Parks, Grew Up, Minutes

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.

  Richard Roeper

  New York, Thinking, Long

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• I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, Moving, Cheerful

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• Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

  James Cotton

  Player, Guitar, Trying

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• I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.

  David Bromberg

  Winter, Years, People

  Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. June 4, 2008.

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• I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either!

  Marti Webb

  Play, Feelings, Sound

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