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Chicago Quotes
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen."
"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
"I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago."
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
"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 take a cab just to go around the corner."
"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
"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 the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
"So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago."
"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days."
"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."
"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"
"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."
"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
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