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The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets. — Charlie LeDuff

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

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

Detroit 8-1 vs. Baltimore, Chicago. — Wayne Lynch

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

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

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

For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city. — Manuel Moroun

No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit. — Jack White

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. — Peter Bondra

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

My mum's American. She's from Detroit. — Rebecca Hall

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

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

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. — Steve Yzerman

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents. — Denis O'Hare

I played golf all over Detroit. — Smokey Robinson

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

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland. — Apparat

Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week. — Dennis Miller

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

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

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. — Rick Snyder

Phoebe regarded Kevin with eyes as chilly as a Lions uniform in the middle of a losing Detroit November. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South. — Big Sean

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

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

I'm a Detroit player, they set styles. — Big Sean

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. — Barry Sanders

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks. — Aretha Franklin

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic. — Charlie LeDuff

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing. — Magic Johnson

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. — Doug Collins

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos. — Kevin Hart

Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different. — Mike Binder

Detroit is full of talent. — Martha Reeves

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

There ain't no haints in Detroit. — Angela Flournoy

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy. — Edward L. Glaeser

I'm a nice girl from the Detroit area - Livonia, to be exact. — Judy Greer

Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so. — Jerry Herron

Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo. — Kid Rock

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host. — Kevin D. Williamson

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men. — George Rogers Clark

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit. — Lillian Gish

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

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

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

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music. — Glenn Frey

I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort. — Felix Kramer

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

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything. — William Clay Ford, Sr.

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

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood. — Steven Seagal

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

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check. — Mitt Romney

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

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid. — Robert Hood

of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst. — Tracy Chevalier

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

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it. — Jeanette Pierce

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. — Bennett Cerf

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. — Meg White

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

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

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes. — Big Sean

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort. — Charley Pride

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived. — Brian Posehn

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it's like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid. — Frida Kahlo

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

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

My favorite player would probably be Steve Yzerman. He played in Detroit. I really liked the way he played and the way he handled himself. — Sidney Crosby

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

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

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you. — Ted Nugent

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

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place. — Jeffrey Eugenides

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere. — Antonio Gates

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

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

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing. — Matthew Stafford

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

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

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers. — Willie Green

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City. — Big Sean

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me. — Ruta Sepetys

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

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit. — Joe Hill

I am no stranger to loud music. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular. — G. Willow Wilson