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“Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.” quote by Ben Hecht — Download Open image

“Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.”

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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for…

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Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and…

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There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

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Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what…

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“was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world. . . . Only a branch shall survive. . . . They had to accept it . . .…

“I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.”

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Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and…

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Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described,…

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I'm proud to say I had a bet with a guy from Chicago who said Chicago is windier and colder than Wyoming. Wyoming dominated…

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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to…

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I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat…

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“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!”

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This week I realized my dad will make you cry in the store if you make him mad. Also when your crossing the street you gotta hurry. And my dad and step mom took us on a Segway tour so I rode on a Segway . :)

Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would…

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I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.

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As much as I want to stay on the team -- I love Chicago, I love the Bulls -- at the same time, I…

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I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run…

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“I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can…

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You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you…

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Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

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