Detroit Quotes - Page 6

• I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

  Paul Feig

  Drama, Michigan, Clubs

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• I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Growing Up, Healthy, West

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• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  Quincy Jones

  Thug, Color, Car

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• I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

  Denis O'Hare

  Accents, Born, Missouri

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• I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

  Eli Broad

  School, America, Michigan

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• One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.

  Steve Yzerman

  Night, Guy, Special

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• My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

  Anita Baker

  Growing Up, Father, Life Is Short

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• Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Real, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Abandoned, Very Popular, Humans

  G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

  Jane Jacobs

  Squares, Density, Today

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.204, Vintage

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• I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

  Steven Yeun

  College, Fans, Best Times

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

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• By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

  Jonathan Raban

  Taken, Cities, Succeed

  Jonathan Raban (2011). “Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America”, p.303, Vintage

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• Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Years, Nfl

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

  Mark Steyn

  Lbj, Accomplish, Models

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• My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

  Rebecca Hall

  Mum

  "Rebecca Hall chats about being Vicky in 'Barcelona'". Interview with Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 25, 2008.

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• My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drug, Chicago, Baggage

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

  Jerome Bettis

  Hate, Michigan, Born

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• Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

  Harry Reid

  Jobs, Important, President

  Harry Reid's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fun, Home, Cities

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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

  Cities, Proud, Foundation

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• America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

  Jerry Brown

  America, Car, World

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

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• Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

  Kid Rock

  Careers, Michigan, Done

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2017

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