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But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. -- Rick Snyder
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six. -- Ted Lindsay
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. -- Meg White
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. -- Steve Yzerman
For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city. -- Manuel Moroun
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 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
I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite. -- Clark Durant
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
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 - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. -- Michael Moore
People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II. -- Leonard Slatkin
I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people. -- Erin Cummings
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
In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity. -- Clark Durant
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst. -- Gallagher
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
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city. -- Steven Yeun
Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything. -- Big Sean
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'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
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
I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city. -- Michael Eric Dyson
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

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