Chicago Quotes - Page 8

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

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Canada, Gorgeous

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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 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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• 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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• Food in Chicago is the best.

  Lee DeWyze

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• There are so many good venues in Chicago.

  Lee DeWyze

  Venues

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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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• 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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• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  Jack Adams

  Couple, Yards, Looks

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  Ted Allen

  Real, House, Stuff

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

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• I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

  Dave Eggers

  Fans, Studs

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Cities, House

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• I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Priorities, Challenges

  Barack Obama's Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens in Washington D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. July 8, 2008.

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• The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

  Joy Harjo

  Suicidal, East, Sides

  Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli (1996). “The spiral of memory: interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and he told officers: Just charge me with the usual.

  Bob Probert

  Hockey, Blood, Car

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• Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Rights, Cities

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