Chicago Quotes

• Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Opportunity
  • Musical
  • Produce

• 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
  • Crazy
  • Writers
  • Clubhouse

• A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

  

  George Barr McCutcheon
  • Men
  • Fashionable
  • Doorways

• The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Chicago

• 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
  • Fun
  • Dance
  • Chicago

• There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Chicago
  • Hometown

• I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Time
  • Friends
  • American

• I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

  

  Jordana Brewster
  • Up
  • Chicago

• What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Chicago

• Yes, I was inspired by Jack London and still love reading his books. Ernie Banks is another hero because I lived in Chicago for two years as a kid, and I loved that he was the Cubs' loyal underdog and one of the first African-Americans to make that breakthrough.

  

  Conrad Anker
  • Reading
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Chicago

• In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Waiting

• I love a web series. But to me, it does the girl in Detroit a disservice who just watches television. It does a disservice to the girl on the south side of Chicago who doesn't go online.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Girl
  • Chicago

• The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • World
  • Culture
  • Chicago

• I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

  

  Blake Bailey
  • School
  • Wife
  • Picture

• 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
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • History
  • Chicago

• Having someone from Washington, California, or Chicago come in as a verifier, it shows the Hispanic community that Hispanic leaders support me.

  

  Gene Green
  • Community
  • Support
  • California

• 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
  • Church
  • Congregation
  • Denominations

• New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

  

  Jesse Ball
  • America
  • City
  • Chicago

• I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Stop

• 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
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Home
  • Chicago

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