"Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago."

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Source : Jane Byrne, Paul Simon (2004). “My Chicago”, p.310, Northwestern University Press

Jane Byrne

#Holiday Quotes #Chicago Quotes

“What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.”
“Iâ€™m so worried that Iâ€™m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.”
“Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine.”

Source : "The Arts of Beauty".
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.”
“The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people, enlightened people who live conscious lives and do not simply sit there and vegetate. To love the people you have to be the general secretary of the Communist Party or an absolute dictator.”
“Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.”
“By sending Lenin to Russia our (German) Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a miliaty point of view his journey was justified, for Russia had to be laid low. But our Government should have seen to it that we also were not involved in her fall. The events in Russia gave me no cause for complete satisfaction. They considerably eased the military situation, but elements of the greatest danger still remained.”
“It must be important or he wouldn't dare disturb me now,â€ he muttered. Then he drew away to look at me. â€œIf it's not, I'll kill him and return to you directly.”

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