Chicago Quotes · Page 10

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

— Jeremy Piven

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

— Barack Obama

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by…

— Anonymous

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

— Scottie Pippen

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

— Eugene V. Debs

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

— Jane Byrne

Apart from playing Billy Flynn in 'Chicago' in the West End, Ive not done much acting.

— Tony Hadley

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

— Bill Hader

'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and…

— Dean Devlin

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories…

— Hugh Hefner

Chicago started doing the same thing, bringing on young players in the beginning combined with veterans, and it worked for them. The…

— Aroldis Chapman

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the…

— Sinead O'Connor

The only place I've ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy,…

— Ivo Daalder

It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have…

— Tamron Hall

I wish I was in my 20s during the '90s to really fully live it. I feel like that was a pretty…

— Iman Shumpert

The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the…

— Mark Twain

I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago.…

— Junior Wells

I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and…

— Justine Larbalestier

I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy,…

— Timothy Hutton

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians…

— Malik Yusef

I always feel like I'm coaching for my job. Just like when I was a player for nine years in Chicago. I…

— Ron Rivera

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should…

— Wilford Brimley

Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass…

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Austan Goolsbee

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

— David Mamet

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

— James Young

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

— Fred Eychaner

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

— Diablo Cody

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

— H. L. Mencken

I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.

— Danny K. Davis

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

— Lena Waithe

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

— Polo G

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

— Michelle Obama

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

— Jesse Spencer

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

— Lester Bowie

I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

— KiKi Layne

It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.

— Toni Kukoc

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

— George Stigler