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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

~Edward Herrmann

Topics: Air Automobile Detroit Did Least Very You 1950S 1940S

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When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill.

~Elaine Stritch

Topics: Ambulance Detroit Ease Hill Hospital Me Michigan Out Rather Sends Than Way World

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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Am America Best Credit Detroit Enough Graduate Learned Michigan Much Old Old Enough Proud Public Public Schools Remember Remember When Schools State State University Success Them University Were World I Am K-12

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I was 16. In the middle of the night, I took a taxi to the Detroit train station - or maybe it was the Pontiac train station? - and got on a train to Chicago, then transferred to a train to San Diego where my boyfriend was living at the time.

~Elizabeth Reaser

Topics: Boyfriend Chicago Detroit Diego Got Living Maybe Middle Night San San Diego Station Taxi Then Time Took Train Transferred Where

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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

~Elmore Leonard

Topics: Cities Climate Detroit Get Good Good Looks Like Living Looks Mountains Oceans Offer Palm Scenery Trees Views Work

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'8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy went to suburban Detroit Cranbrook, one of the finest private schools in the country.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Class Clowns Competitor Could Country Detroit Final Finest Guy Mile Private Rabbit Revealing Schools Suburban Unnecessary Without

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One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Between City County Detroit Dreamed Feature Films Handful Instead Line Made Mayor Mile Mostly Motown Oakland Renaissance Suburban White Young 1970S

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

~Eminem

Topics: Come Detroit Rough Smooth Talker Where

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Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Airplane Attempt Bomb Breadth Bring Challenges City Detroit Down Enemy Face Gives Kinds New New York New York City Off Our Over Sense Set Square Subway System Things Think Times Times Square Trying Us Whether York I Think

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When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

~Erin Cummings

Topics: About Almost Around Besides Big Big City Buildings Central Central Park City Detroit Hanging Here Lot Manhattan Now Out Park Parks People Places Pushing See Sort Think Think Big Thought Urban Very Walk Where Would You

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