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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
"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 worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."
"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."
"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten."
"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."
"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."
"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."
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