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Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

Kid Rock

Tags: Car Bad Rock

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Kid Rock

Tags: You Go Where

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Marvin Gaye

Tags: Out Also Turned

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Ted Lindsay

Tags: Best Knew City

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

Tony Goldwyn

Tags: Like Up Here

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Meg White

Tags: More Than World

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Gerald R. Ford

Tags: Sports Always Love

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Kid Rock

Tags: You Know Everything

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.

Matthew Stafford

Tags: Thing Doing Else

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Doug Collins

Tags: Time More Always

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

Kevin Nash

Tags: Work Money You

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

Tags: Know Never Every

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

Tags: Because Really Up

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 nightclub culture where bands could work.

Wayne Kramer

Tags: Work You Had

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

Tags: People Me Been

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

Tags: Like Who Your

I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city.

Mike Posner

Tags: Experience People Like

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

Tags: Good Work Like

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

Tags: God Up Always

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

Tags: War Car People

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

Tags: Me Every Got

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 going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Philip Levine

Tags: Work Me Going

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

Robert Reich

Tags: You Know See

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

Tags: People Think Love

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

Anita Baker

Tags: Family You Me

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

Mary Gaitskill

Tags: Time Good You

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

Tags: Life Would Even

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Sufjan Stevens

Tags: Car Just Get

My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.

Sander Levin

Tags: Time Home Go

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?

Isabel Wilkerson

Tags: Great Because Get

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