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Detroit Quotes

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I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.
Deion Sanders

Authors on Detroit Quotes: Mitt Romney Obie Trice Kid Rock David Maraniss Mayer Hawthorne Mark Steyn Eugene Mirman Lillian Gish Glenn Frey Danny Brown Kristen Bell John Engler P. J. O'Rourke Kevin D. Williamson Ram Dass David Letterman Marvin Gaye Madonna Ciccone Buzz Aldrin Eminem Jonathan Raban Steven Sebring Deion Sanders Mitch Albom Philip Levine Jerome Bettis Kevin Hart Rebecca Hall Jack White Anna Sui Ernest Gellner Joyce Carol Oates Steven Seagal
2.
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
Bennett Cerf

3.
Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
Glenn Frey

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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
Diana Ross

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Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
Marvin Gaye

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Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.
Mayer Hawthorne

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I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
John Lee Hooker

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Let Detroit go bankrupt.
Mitt Romney

9.
The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.
Derrick May

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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem

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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
Obie Trice

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LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
Mark Steyn

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I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
Rick Danko

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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Obie Trice

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That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?
Mayer Hawthorne

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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Ernest Gellner

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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
Ted Lindsay

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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
Ed Markey

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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
Kristen Bell

20.
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
Kid Rock

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Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
Edward Furlong

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I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.
Bobby Layne

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There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played
Smokey Robinson

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It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.
Charles Krauthammer

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I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.
Jack White

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Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
Charlie LeDuff

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Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
Joyce Carol Oates

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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Jim Harrison

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The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Mark Steyn

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Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person
Julian Bond

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Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.
Lillian Gish

32.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Madonna Ciccone

33.
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.
Jerome Bettis

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Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.
Lillian Gish

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Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson

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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
Obie Trice

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I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.
Dwayne McDuffie

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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Ram Dass

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I care about the children of Detroit.
John Engler

40.
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
Eddie Floyd

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I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
John Engler

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Detroit is full of talent.
Martha Reeves

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I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
Tony Goldwyn

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There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.
Michael Moore

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Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!
Danny Brown

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If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.
Victoria Gray Adams

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Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
Kid Rock

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Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
Mat Johnson

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When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
Ed Koch

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Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.
Mitt Romney