Detroit Quotes - Page 3

• It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There just needs to be a movement to help push the city beyond the automobile industry. The music business needs to learn how to support itself.

  MC Serch

  Cities, Support, Promise

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• If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Goodbye, Jobs, Suicidal

  "Let Detroit go bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Car, Sound

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear supply lines, and we can easily rebuild the auto industry with the kind of money we spend on other countries we invade. Hell, our new Secretary of State, Hillary of Clinton, spent the better part of the past year fighting for the rights of average folks from Michigan, so think of the good will we have with the public. This is very doable. Just tell Congress we will give KBR no-bid contracts to fix Detroit.

  John Cole

  Country, Fighting, Past

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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

  Europe, Law, Spain

  "Detroit Ran Into The Inviolable Rule Of Economics". www.jewishworldreview.com. July 26, 2013.

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• From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

  Danny Brown

  Age, Can Do

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

  Diana Ross

  Ghetto, Used

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• I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

  Erin Cummings

  Book, Cities, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Lakes, Cities, Two

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

  Mitch Albom

  Kindness, Generosity, Tough

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• Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

  Obie Trice

  Grew, Yeah, Westside

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

  John Lee Hooker

  Light, Cities, Taste

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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

  Rocks, Random Things, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charlie LeDuff

  Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.10, Penguin

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• People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Cities

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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• It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

  Sparky Anderson

  Lying, Team, Winning

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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

  Made, Persons, Subjects

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Car, Rock N Roll

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from May 29, 2014

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• I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

  Anna Sui

  Grew Up, Grew, Suburbs

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• I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

  Danny Brown

  Thinking, Michigan, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

  Jordin Sparks

  Cities, Auburn, Downtown

  "Jordin Sparks SPARKLE On-Set". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

  Andrew Vachss

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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