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Detroit Quotes

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

Change Business Believe Detroit Way

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

People You Detroit See Some

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

Grace Lee Boggs

Future Ideas Labor Detroit Movement

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.

Brother Better Musicians Detroit Up

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

American Detroit She Mum

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Power Texas America Detroit Oil

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

Random Chance Detroit Kind Rock

I left Detroit in 2007, worked on a cruise ship for a year, moved to Chicago in '08, then moved to L.A. in February 2012.

February Ship Year Chicago Detroit

I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.

Time Back Down Detroit Right Juice

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

Amazing Now Detroit Up Owner Fan

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

Me Play Detroit Playing Keep Just

I'm from the Detroit area, just north of Detroit. But then I went to boarding school in northern Michigan, so a little bit colder up there. But beautiful, very beautiful.

Beautiful School Detroit Up Little

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

Wish Detroit I Wish Failing Quicker

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Detroit Escape Share Costs Model

When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.

Statik Selektah

Detroit Knew Made Everybody Eminem

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

History Red Wings Detroit NHL Few

London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

Soul Detroit London Buffalo Halfway

My dad was a professor, and he had a Fulbright to teach in Venice, so we lived there when I was really little, and then we moved to Detroit, like you do. But then my parents split up, and my mom had just fallen in love with Italy, so she decided to move back to Torino.

Love Parents Mom You Back Detroit

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Ghetto Detroit Up Call Used Part

When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.

Chauncey Billups

Back Detroit Retire Signed

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

Succeed Game Detroit Talk Big Like

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.

Work Me Doing Stop Detroit Poet

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

Ideas Detroit Get Different Like

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

Work Money You Go Detroit Kid

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