I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York,… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4,… — Shani Davis Copy Share Image
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not.… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I grew up in Illinois. If you were in Chicago, you were a Democrat. You get out to the suburbs and central… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.' — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run… — Amy Hastings Copy Share Image
I feel like Chicago it's so different, we have a different story to tell, we are seeing these things happen in this… — Polo G Copy Share Image
When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in Chicago that I miss. I was there one year out of high school. So I… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
I lived in Chicago until I was about 12, and then I moved to Dallas until I was 19. So I think… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I used to do plays in Chicago...for literally, two people. So when they tell me, 'Bad news, only 6 million people watched… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful… — Deena Kastor Copy Share Image
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became… — George Will Copy Share Image
Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
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