Chicago Quotes
592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet,…
— Mandy Patinkin
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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 a…
— Mandy Patinkin
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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of…
— Robert Plant
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I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful…
— Amy Poehler
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
— Dan Quayle
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And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
— Sun Ra
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I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was…
— John C. Reilly
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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.…
— John C. Reilly
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In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all…
— John C. Reilly
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art…
— Jerry Saltz
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
— Carl Sandburg
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the…
— Carl Sandburg
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My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years,…
— Gus Van Sant
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I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
— Sarah Shahi
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The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
— Cass Sunstein
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line.…
— Radhanath Swami
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
— Studs Terkel
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Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching…
— Lee Trevino
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm…
— Vince Vaughn
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I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
— Dwyane Wade
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I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in…
— Dwyane Wade
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Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on…
— Dwyane Wade
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I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there…
— Christopher Walken
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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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