Detroit famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
-- Aretha Franklin -
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 -
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
-- Bennett Cerf -
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe - and now Detroit - is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell, 'Stop.' You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it disappears over a cliff.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.
-- Charlie LeDuff -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.
-- Derrick May -
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
-- Diana Ross -
I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.
-- Dwayne McDuffie -
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
-- Ed Markey -
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
-- Eddie Floyd -
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
-- Edward Furlong -
Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.
-- G. Willow Wilson -
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 Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.
-- Jason Reitman -
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.
-- Jerome Bettis -
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
-- Jim Harrison -
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
-- Jim Henson -
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
-- John Engler -
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 can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
-- Jordin Sparks -
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 -
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
-- Julie Mehretu -
Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
-- Kid Rock -
Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
-- Kristen Bell -
I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit
-- Lena Dunham -
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
-- Mark Steyn -
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
-- Marvin Gaye -
Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.
-- Mat Johnson -
That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?
-- Mayer Hawthorne -
Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.
-- Mayer Hawthorne -
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
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 -
If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.
-- Nick Cannon -
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
-- Obie Trice -
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
-- Rick Danko -
There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played
-- Smokey Robinson -
I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.
-- Steven Seagal -
I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.
-- Steven Yeun -
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
-- Ted Lindsay -
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
-- Tony Goldwyn -
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
-- Travis Barker -
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 -
I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
-- Denis O'Hare -
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.
-- Steven Sebring -
I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.
-- Bobby Layne -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.
-- Kevin D. Williamson -
What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.
-- Kwame Kilpatrick
