Detroit Quotes - Page 4

• The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

  Peter Schiff

  Real, Government, Stories

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• I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

  Lena Dunham

  "Lena Dunham: ‘I’m Thin For Detroit,’ ‘Girls’ Star Tells Howard Stern", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Just look at what this corrupt establishment has done to our cities like Detroit; Flint, Michigan; and rural towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina and all across our country. Take a look at what's going on. They stripped away these town bare. And raided the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away out of our country never to return unless I'm elected president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Taken

  "TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations". www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

  Eugene Levy

  Hockey, Cities, Wings

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• Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

  Elinor Glyn

  Years, Europe, Cities

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.313, eBookIt.com

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• I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

  Aretha Franklin

  Community, Church, Food Banks

  "Aretha Franklin Gives Christmas A Soulful Twist". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 21, 2008.

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• You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

  James Wolk

  Stars, Rocks, Insane

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• I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Growing Up, Rough, Grows

  Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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• 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

  Mistake, Clinton, Elevators

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• I really like John Legend as an artist and as a person. As well as Lyfe Jennings. Jeezy is good people as well. I like to interview Nick Cannon. He always has something interesting to say. I still enjoy talking to Jay-Z or Nas which was weird since we had so much history. I also enjoyed talking to the Mayor of Detroit as politicians because they need to hear the hip hop side of the community that they don't hear from on a regular basis.

  MC Serch

  Artist, Talking, People

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• Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

  Lillian Gish

  Emotional, Hollywood

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• I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.

  Yusef Lateef

  Teacher, School, People

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• I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

  Glenn Frey

  Mother, Band, Grew Up

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

  Boots Riley

  Player, Ohio, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit's demise coming.

  David Maraniss

  Spring, Shadow, Stories

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents.

  Joseph Bruce

  Home, Redneck, Parent

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• People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Beautiful, War, Believe

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• All you crazy white people "I'm American!", all you did was come out of your mother's pussy on American soil. That's it. That's it! What, you think you're better than somebody from France 'cause you came out of a pussy in Detroit?

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Mother, Crazy

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• I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."

  Wayne Dyer

  Growing Up, East, Scarcity

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

  Rick Santorum

  Wall, Support, Republican

  "Santorum: Romney favored Wall Street bailout, but not Detroit bailout" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

  "The GQ&A: Ndamukong Suh". Interview with Peter Scharger, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?

  Eugene Mirman

  Believe, America, Vancouver

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• What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.

  Neeme Jarvi

  Careers, Scotland, Community

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• I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Team, Thinking

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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

  Bobby Layne

  Winning, Championship, Steelers

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