Chicago Quotes
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When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.
Elizabeth Berg
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I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.
Fred Allen
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
Ernest Hemingway
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It was about 105 degrees in Chicago. And that's a time when everybody gets tired. I came into the clubhouse, and everybody was sitting around, and I said, 'Beautiful day. Let's play two!' And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There were a couple of writers around, and they wrote that, and it stayed with me.
Ernie Banks
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I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.
Bonnie Hunt
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The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Denis Leary
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Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.
Jonathan Turley
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I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
Dwyane Wade
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There's one denomination in particular, though, that has pushed very hard to be multiracial in its denomination - not only its denomination but, I mean, in its congregations, and it's called the Evangelical Covenant Church, http://www.covchurch.org/ which is headquartered in Chicago. Their whole goal is that's the kind of churches they start, multiracial, and I think they say now 20 percent of their churches are that.
Michael Emerson
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
Allison Tolman
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That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Jerry Della Femina
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Having someone from Washington, California, or Chicago come in as a verifier, it shows the Hispanic community that Hispanic leaders support me.
Gene Green
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People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.
Lena Waithe
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In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
Margo Jefferson
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Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
Jane Byrne
