Chicago Quotes
592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors
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When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a…
— Thomas Frank
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Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together…
— Thomas Frank
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You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.
— Robert Fulghum
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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
— Frank Gehry
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
— Dick Gregory
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I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything…
— Kathy Griffin
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been…
— Billy Corgan
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often…
— Willem Dafoe
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We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.
— Richard J. Daley
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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in…
— Alvin Dark
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
— Eugene V. Debs
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I…
— Zooey Deschanel
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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
— Michael Douglas
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I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
— Dave Eggers
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was…
— Rahm Emanuel
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless…
— Rahm Emanuel
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I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
— Dennis Farina
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In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have…
— Bryan Ferry
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After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved…
— Tina Fey
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Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually met for the first time at this showcase. They were…
— Lupe Fiasco
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In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system,…
— Lupe Fiasco
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The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it…
— Lupe Fiasco
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I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
— Emmylou Harris
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Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing…
— Steve Harvey
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I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!
— David Hasselhoff
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