Chicago Quotes
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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 -
New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.
Frank Vincent
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
Butch Trucks -
Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
Robert Dwayne Womack -
I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.
Jake Johnson -
If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.
Lee DeWyze -
The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.
Blase J. Cupich -
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
Jami Attenberg
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There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.
Jamila Woods -
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.
Austan Goolsbee -
It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.
Desiree Rogers -
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins -
In Chicago, I'd audition 3-4 times a week, but when I got out to L.A., there were, like, 4-5 a day, and my skin got really thick.
Jacob Zachar -
I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.
Jessie Mueller
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Claes Oldenburg -
I have fallen in love with Chicago. The community here is loving, supportive, and welcoming.
Alex Weisman -
Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
John Ensign -
As a result of its generous stand Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school, the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
A. J. Liebling -
It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.
Fred Willard -
Chicago is the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.
Nelson Algren
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In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
Luther Allison -
Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.
Muddy Waters -
The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.
Jennifer Nettles Sugarland -
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
Matt Besser