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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"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!"
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"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."
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"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago."
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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 take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My whole act is confession."
Act

"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
Love

"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."
People

"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
Teaching

"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
Performance

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
Chicago

"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."
Anger

"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
Love

"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
Gold

"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
Performance
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