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

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

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.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

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

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

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

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

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.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.

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

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

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

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

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

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

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

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

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

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

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

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

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.

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

I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.

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

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

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

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

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

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I care about the children of Detroit.

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

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

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

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.