Best Detroit Words
194 Detroit quotes by 151 unique authors
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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…
— Quincy Jones
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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…
— Ed Koch
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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And…
— Elmore Leonard
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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 -…
— Michael Moore
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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…
— Rachel Nichols
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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…
— Ted Nugent
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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
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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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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…
— Harry Reid
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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…
— Jason Reitman
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Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
— Kid Rock
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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
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Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
— Kid Rock
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I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they…
— Kid Rock
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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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I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.
— Steven Seagal
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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…
— Jordin Sparks
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Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
— Steve Yzerman
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison,…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at…
— Steve Kluger
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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…
— Andrew Vachss
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That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe darkly, "is an…
— Richelle Mead
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