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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. -- Bennett Cerf
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. -- Eminem
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. -- Travis Barker
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
Let Detroit go bankrupt. -- Mitt Romney
I care about the children of Detroit. -- John Engler
I'm a Detroit player, they set styles. -- Big Sean
Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit. -- Obie Trice
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit. -- Jim Harrison
There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played -- Smokey Robinson
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit. -- Kid Rock
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop. -- Obie Trice
Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo. -- Kid Rock
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit. -- Eddie Floyd
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit. -- Obie Trice
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. -- Marvin Gaye
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends. -- Madonna Ciccone
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. -- Gerald R. Ford
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. -- Steve Yzerman
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now. -- Ed Markey
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. -- Doug Collins
Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan. -- Kid Rock
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US. -- Jim Henson
In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing. -- Matthew Stafford
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
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
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
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
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 always look back very fondly. -- Chuck Daly
It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. -- Sparky Anderson
Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person -- Julian Bond
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. -- John Lee Hooker
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
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 that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
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 there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living. -- Elmore Leonard
Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill! -- Danny Brown
I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands. -- Brian Michael Bendis
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. -- Ted Lindsay
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
The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. -- Ben Shapiro
I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life. -- James Wolk
Detroit is full of talent. -- Martha Reeves
Hollywood - an emotional Detroit. -- Lillian Gish
My mum's American. She's from Detroit. -- Rebecca Hall
Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit. -- Lillian Gish
Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check. -- Mitt Romney
Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word. -- Glenn Frey
Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit. -- Mayer Hawthorne
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. -- Anna Sui
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit. -- Julie Mehretu
I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood. -- Steven Seagal
You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos. -- Kevin Hart
I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit. -- David Letterman
No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit. -- Jack White
Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week. -- Dennis Miller
I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars. -- Dax Shepard
Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host. -- Kevin D. Williamson
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself. -- Charlie LeDuff
When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy. -- Ty Cobb
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But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. -- Rick Snyder
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan. -- Jerome Bettis
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six. -- Ted Lindsay
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. -- John Engler
I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music. -- Glenn Frey
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure. -- Jane Jacobs
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. -- Meg White
When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland. -- Apparat
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. -- Malik Bendjelloul
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit -- Tony Goldwyn
My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit. -- Mitt Romney
Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile. -- Kristen Bell
High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere. -- Antonio Gates
I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people. -- Jeb Bush
I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks. -- Aretha Franklin
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. -- Diana Ross
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. -- Ram Dass
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. -- Mark Steyn
That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid. -- Robert Hood
Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit. -- Rick Santorum
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. -- Douglas Brinkley
I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing. -- Magic Johnson
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom. -- Mat Johnson
Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did. -- Mila Kunis
I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money. -- Kevin Nash
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. -- Peter Schiff
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s. -- Buzz Aldrin
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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
Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular. -- G. Willow Wilson
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
For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city. -- Manuel Moroun
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. -- Lizzo
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. -- Edward Furlong
My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City. -- Big Sean
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Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort. -- Felix Kramer
When I went to Detroit, I was very naÃ¯ve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly. -- Steven Sebring
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
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
I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. -- Barry Sanders
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
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
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
Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why. -- Casey Kasem
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans. -- Robert Reich
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
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
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
It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable. -- David Maraniss
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
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
Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere. -- David Maraniss
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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 dressed. -- Lewis H. Lapham

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