Nelson Algren Quotes

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Nelson Algren

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I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

Madonna Breakfast Club
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

Omar Dorsey
- People
- Bad
- Father
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

Kaskade
- Life
- Chicago
- Decisions
I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

La'Porsha Renae
- Life
- Up
- Good
The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

Zac Goldsmith
- Live
- Path
- Broken
I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

Edmund Phelps
- Up
- Age
- Parents