Chicago Quotes
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I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
Craig Sager
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
Luther Allison
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A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
Alan Ruck
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When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'
Jeff Foxworthy
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The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
Eric Lefkofsky
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
Douglas Wood
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I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.
Brett Eldredge
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
Rand Paul
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Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.
Danny K. Davis
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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college
Steve Albini
Big Black
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I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.
Bob Newhart
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
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So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.
James Young
Styx
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Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.
Lauren Lapkus
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The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.
Jamila Woods
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I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
Gene Kelly
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Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.
Bonnie Hunt
