Chicago Quotes
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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.
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And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
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I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.
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Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
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I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
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From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.
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My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
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The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
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Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.
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The beach is still a public place, and that's an amazing grace about Chicago. We have so many problems, but the water always stays. That inspires me and keeps me inspired about the city and keeps me hopeful.
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People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago.
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.
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I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
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Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
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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.
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I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
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The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
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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.'
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I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.
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I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.
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I will say that I had a number of teams there with Chicago and the Lakers that had over 45 wins or close to that at the All-Star break and the last third of the season is much more difficult. It's really tough.
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
