Top 1200 Downtown Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

I'm playing a cop in Chicago. So I have to look beefier - like a guy who eats steak and potatoes.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

Atlanta is definitely where it's at. I still go back to Chicago a lot though, I got family there.

I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

My adult life, I grew up in Chicago. When I go back there, I always have fond memories.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

I created my own space, which was called the cave. It was a live/work space in downtown Los Angeles on 7th and Spring. When I lived there it was quite derelict. I got this massive space and half of it was my bedroom and the other half of it was the back room - no [natural] light, all fluorescent lights.

Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that's the main motivation for me.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the 'Los Angeles Reader' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.

The hope is that in rediscovering 'Chicago,' audiences will rediscover what theater was. It was sophisticated, complicated, adult.

This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be an important additional piece to the airport development. This is a significant investment and one that should be seen as a significant long-term commitment to making this a reality.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Being from Chicago, you kind of are shielded in a way from the other stuff that goes on in music and the industry.

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

I know what it was like to grow up in Chicago and see the same problems every day.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.

I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.

The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.

Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get off downtown Skid Row, and you're a target for all of the environmental harms in that area. The pain and trauma in that area is so thick, you can almost reach your hand out and touch it.

I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say it.

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

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

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