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“Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.”

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Author:Angel Haze

“As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.””

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Author:Deborah Rhode

“There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.”

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Author:John Calipari

“I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.”

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Author:Jesmyn Ward

“For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.”

“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.”

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Author:Paul Feig

“There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.”

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Author:Jim Harbaugh

“Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.”

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Author:Jim Harbaugh

“It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.”

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Author:James P. Hoffa

“Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.”

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Author:Denard Robinson

“I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.”

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Author:Gordie Howe

“Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.”

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Author:Bob Seger

“Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.”

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Author:John Engler

“For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.”

“In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.”

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Author:Justin Amash

“Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.”

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“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.”

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Author:Michael Imperioli