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“Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.”

Character School Used Issues Focus Position Particular Drug Abuse Substance Exclusive Public School Detroit Drug Abuse Substance Abuse School Districts

Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.”

Thinking Effort Internet Victory Climate Starting Detroit Grassroots

Author:Felix Kramer

“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.”

Years Lying Winning Team Fans Terrible Terrible Things Detroit

Author:Sparky Anderson

“Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.”

Years Vehicle Detroit Hydrogen

Author:Ed Markey

“I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.”

Feels Games Winning Sports Chance Quitting Enjoyment Lions Detroit I Quit

Author:Barry Sanders

“Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.”

Mother Half Detroit

Author:Glenn Frey

“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.”

People Way Book Hard Hands Fans Smart Independent Meetings Dedicated Detroit Really Smart Pittsburgh

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.”

Inspirational Bus Detroit

Author:Ram Dass

“Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.”

Knows Wells Littles Kids Cities Detroit Suburbs

Author:Kid Rock

“There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played”

Courses Havens Detroit

Author:Smokey Robinson

“I care about the children of Detroit.”

Children Care I Care Detroit

Author:John Engler

“In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?”

Needs Giving Asks Answers Talking Team Concepts Sticks Pairs Detroit Skates Right Answers Puck Hull

Author:Frank Mahovlich

“The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”

Car Industry Periods Productions Compare Paris Motor Obscurity Detroit Motor Cars

Author:Ernest Gellner

“I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.”

“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.”

Scared Take Me Detroit

Author:Deion Sanders

“I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.”

School Wish Failing Detroit

Author:John Engler

“Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.”

Years Looks Bigs Guy Winning Goal Team Couple Years Ago Seasons Cups Score Detroit Stanley Great Team Stanley Cup

Author:Peter Bondra

“Detroit is full of talent.”

Talent Detroit

Author:Martha Reeves

“I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit”

Detroit

Author:Lena Dunham

“The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.”

World Moments Games Winning Cities Known Saws Series Bob Championship Tigers Pitcher Detroit Single Mom Stunning World Series

Author:Ernie Harwell

“Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.”

Involved Drug Ten Yeah Supposed To Be Chicago Arrested Airline Detroit Baggage Delta Smuggling

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.”

Grew Grew Up Detroit Suburbs

Author:Anna Sui

“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”

Laughing Detroit Laugh At Yourself

Book:Detroit: An American Autopsy

Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy

“Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.”

Has Beens Three Race Cities Acknowledge Flames Flags Perpetual Burned Ashes Founding Three Times Riot Detroit Race Riots

Book:Detroit: An American Autopsy

Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy

“LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.”

Models Accomplish Detroit Great Society Lbj

Author:Mark Steyn

“Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.”

Years Might Loses Week Football Nfl Detroit Bye Funny American Football

Author:Dennis Miller

“One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.”

Knows Kind Night Guy Walks Rooms Special Advantage Tonight Coincidence Detroit Montreal Special Things

Author:Steve Yzerman

“I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.”

Thinking Years Looks Sun Saws Seeing Starting Fierce Detroit Rivalry Miami Playoffs Antonio San Antonio

Author:John Starks

“I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.”

Wanted Player Brother Musician California Get Better My Brother Exhausted Stewardship Avenues Institute Detroit

Author:Chad Smith

“When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.”

Fighting Winning Energy Cities Feet Towns Inner Strength Get Back Detroit Resilient Fighting To Win

Author:George Clooney

“I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.”

Knows Firsts Night Sports Walks Forget Too Much Player Team Minutes Hardest Never Forget Bus Tigers Detroit Aisle Night Time Ballparks

Author:Al Kaline

“All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.”

Faces Games Race Grew Grew Up Rap Cards Detroit Boiling Race Car Boiling Point

Author:Eminem

“I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.”

Fans College Huge Detroit Best Times

Author:Steven Yeun

“I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.”

Rough Smooth Detroit Talkers

Author:Eminem

“Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.”

Today Lows Miles Endless Squares Detroit Density

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.”

Humans Abandoned Detroit Very Popular

Book:Alif the Unseen

Source: Alif the Unseen

“Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.”

Race Conversation Come Up Detroit

Author:Julie Mehretu

“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.'”

Want Life Is Father Lines Support Growing Up Growing Needed What You Want Life Is Short Assembly Detroit Assembly Line

Author:Anita Baker

“I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.”

Involved Drama Theater Clubs Performing Detroit Suburbs Michigan Forensics Drama Club

Author:Paul Feig

“Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.”

Needs Happens America Opportunity Challenges Cities Risk Innovation Metaphor Detroit Ingenuity Risk-taking American Cities

Author:Darren Walker

“By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.”

Ifs Ends Might Lines Cities Gone Taken Dangerous Succeed Detroit Seattle Rumours

Book:Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

Source: Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

“Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.”

Made Real Funny America Car Humorous Weight Size Characteristics Fuel Iron Efficiency Detroit Chunks Aircraft Carrier Plymouth Aircraft Carriers Fuel Efficiency

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.”

Years Shows College Couple Program Radio Dramatic Detroit Lone Rangers Lone Ranger

Author:Casey Kasem

“Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.”

Kind Chance Rocks Rock N Roll Detroit Random Things

Author:Edward Furlong

“Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.”

Heart Country Grew Grew Up Miles Detroit 8 Mile

Author:Kristen Bell

“My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.”

Kind Mother Father Parent Born Class Middle Stage My Family Blue Middle Class Italian Detroit Collars Diana Blue Collar Italian American

Author:Lorraine Bracco

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

I Can Humor Inspiration Sports Watches Radio Insight Tigers Detroit

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.”

“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.”

Way Made Stills Used Chance Records Havens Grew Grew Up Miles Detroit Motown

Author:Rick Danko

“I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.”

Week Moved Detroit

Author:Eddie Floyd

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