Detroit Quotes
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Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
Glenn Frey The Eagles -
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
Buzz Aldrin
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
Magic Johnson -
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
Calvin Johnson -
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 -
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
Mark Steyn -
Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Obie Trice
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Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.
Manoj Bhargava -
I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.
Daniel Dewan Sewell -
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
Glenn Frey The Eagles -
We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
Peter Schiff
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Cadillac said we could all fly out to Detroit and give input as they start putting together their hybrid models and the way they would be presented to the public?. Artists and corporations working together, that's the 21st century. That's the true Age of Aquarius. But John's ego wouldn't let him see it was a good thing to do.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.
Benjamin Carson -
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
Diana Ross -
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 the bus fare.
Andrew Vachss -
We started off making a full album with Brendan in his studio in Detroit and had nine or 10 songs done, then he got busy with his own record and we started talking to Jack and Meg about touring together. So we decided to do something for the road, and it turned out that the five completed songs made a kind of cool record, with this dreamier, darker mood than some of our other stuff.
James Patrick Keeler The Afghan Whigs -
We figured no one would break it for another 30 years, just like it took for the Lakers' record to be broken. So, it is surprising Detroit is pushing for it.
Phil Jackson
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
My mum's American. She's from Detroit.
Rebecca Hall -
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Ernest Gellner -
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
Travis Barker Blink-182