Chicago Quotes

• I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

  

  LeBron James
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Chicago

• I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Great
  • Real
  • City

• My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

  

  John C. Mather
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Chicago

• Chicago is a pretty good town.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chicago

• I want to be in Chicago. I'd like to.

  

  Eddie Jemison
  • Chicago
  • I Want

• I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Community
  • Chicago

• I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Chicago

• I thought I would hate New York, but I love New York. I almost hate to say that being from Chicago.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Hate
  • Chicago

• My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Country
  • Perfect
  • Friend

• Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Attention
  • Chicago
  • Squad

• Chicago's always a friendly place to me.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Chicago

• I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Chicago
  • Minutes
  • Grew

• House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • House
  • Chicago
  • Hood

• I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

  

  John Madden
  • Feeling
  • Green
  • Soldier

• The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• I went to, you know, a church in Chicago, and my mom, of course, was in the choir because my mom was a singer; she used to sing. I wanted to be in the choir as well, and I was like, 'Mom, please, you know, I want to sing in the choir with you guys.' I kept on asking her, and finally I was, you know, in the choir.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Church

• I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Up
  • Together
  • Growing

• I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

  

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
  • Girl
  • Office
  • Class

• I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.

  

  Christen Press
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Chicago

• Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Trump

• I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Chicago

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