Best Detroit Thoughts
194 Detroit quotes by 151 unique authors
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When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.
— Apparat
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be…
— Lamar Alexander
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Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their…
— Clayton Christensen
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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
— Edward Herrmann
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
— Manuel Moroun
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I played golf all over Detroit.
— Smokey Robinson
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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
— Meg White
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I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at…
— Marta Kristen
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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
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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to…
— Eric Holder
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I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
— Dax Shepard
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From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic…
— Jeb Hensarling
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I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I…
— Danny Brown
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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…
— Danny Brown
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If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole…
— Wayne Kramer
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I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant,…
— Ed Bradley
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Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I…
— Chuck Daly
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If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to…
— John Lee Hooker
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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's…
— Philip Levine
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We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling,…
— Charles Phillips
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You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm…
— Obie Trice
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This is amazing. You play your whole career for this opportunity, and to have this opportunity at home in Detroit . . . to win…
— Jerome Bettis
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We've played (in Detroit) a couple of times, so that's a benefit for me. Nothing the likes of this type of game, of course. But…
— Jerome Bettis
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