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Detroit Quotes - Page 4

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

Kevin Hart
People, Casinos, Detroit

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

Kevin D. Williamson
Political, Detroit, Host

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.

Jonathan Raban
Taken, Cities, Detroit
Jonathan Raban (2011). “Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America”, p.303, Vintage

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Musical, Detroit, Towns
Interview by Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Glenn Frey
Mother, Band, Detroit
"The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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

G. Willow Wilson
Detroit, Abandoned, Very Popular
G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are gentrifying your neighborhood and opening Thai restaurants, that's a poor neighborhood.

Eugene Mirman
Cities, Poor Neighborhoods, Detroit

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
Cities, Detroit, Factories
"Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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
Detroit, Vulnerable, Possibility
David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

David Letterman
Detroit, Havens

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Buzz Aldrin
Growing Up, Detroit, Rough
Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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
Evil People, Racist, Detroit
Source: www.foxnews.com

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