Good Detroit Quotes

#1. I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

Kid Rock

#2. The people in Detroit are poor, but most of them are good. There are things going on here beyond an ordinary person's control. These people are hungry and they have no job. No possibility of a job. They're stuck here.

Charlie LeDuff

#3. Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

John Feinstein

#4. What counts is the cultural level

Ezra Pound

#5. I think sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I am.

Kristanna Loken

#6. I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

James Lipton

#7. What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#8. Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

Mary Gaitskill

#9. There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

Jason Kidd

#10. If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#11. I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

Chris Paine

#12. I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

Big Sean

#13. When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Apparat

#14. The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!

Eric Thomas

#15. 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

#16. You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey ... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

Obie Trice

#17. In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!

Yakov Smirnoff

#18. Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Don't take too much council from your fears.

James E. Faust