Kupcinet Quotes

#1. Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

Irv Kupcinet

#2. A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Marilyn Monroe

#3. As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

Irv Kupcinet

#4. Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

Jim Cooper

#5. Ladies first"
Mina Hesitated. "Uh, age before beauty."
"Grimms never win."
"Prince before pauper."
"Oh, fine. Just don't say chivalry is dead. 'Cause you had your chance.

Chanda Hahn

#6. What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

#7. Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

Jean Rhys

#8. I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

Irv Kupcinet

#9. By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

Irv Kupcinet

#10. Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

Irv Kupcinet

#11. A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

Irv Kupcinet

#12. The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Addams

#13. I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

Donald Wolfit

#14. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Irv Kupcinet

#15. A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Charlie Chaplin

#17. 'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.

Irv Kupcinet

#18. ... I could feel a nostalgia for the evening already setting in, a longing for the existence of this night building before my eyes.

Deirdre Shaw

#19. I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

Criss Angel

#20. The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

Christian Louboutin

#21. My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

Irv Kupcinet

#22. My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.

Irv Kupcinet

#23. I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.

Mark Morris

#24. They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, 'What happened to so-and-so?' ... as if I got letters from them every now and again.

Stephen King

#25. I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

Irv Kupcinet

#26. We ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes, and a story we tell about ourselves.'
And what others say about us.

M T Anderson

#27. You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

Mark Twain