Michigan Quotes - Page 2

• You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Cities, Chicago

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• My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Dad, Player, Practice

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• I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

  Fred Upton

  Government, Car, Choices

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• You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

  Bret Bielema

  Records, States, Bigs

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• The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

  Derek Jeter

  Baseball, Firsts, Cold

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• The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.

  John Engler

  Constitution, Currents, Written

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• Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

  John Engler

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

  John Engler

  Wish, Looks, Measurement

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• As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Drinking, Responsibility, Lakes

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• It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

  Glenn Frey

  Hippie, College, Drug

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• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, School, Lines

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• So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

  James Earl Jones

  School, Years, Firsts

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

  John Engler

  Credit, Rating, States

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• I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

  Jim Harrison

  Race, Genuine, Mississippi

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

  Bill Ayers

  African American, Lines, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

  Gillian Anderson

  Girl, School, People

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. August, 2008.

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• Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Greatness, Excellence

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• Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Growing Up, Native American, Illinois

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2005.

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• We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, Years, Argument

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

  Bob Seger

  Monday, Garbage

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• I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.

  Evan Peters

  Agency, Years, Class

  "Tribeca Exclusive Interview: Evan Peters Talks ‘American Horror Story’ And ‘Adult World’". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.inquisitr.com. April 21, 2013.

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Two, Religion

  Song: Today's Message

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• Ford is leaving. You see that, their small car division leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio. They're all leaving. And we can't allow it to happen anymore.As far as child care is concerned and so many other things, I think Hillary Clinton and I agree on that. We probably disagree a little bit as to numbers and amounts and what we're going to do, but perhaps we'll be talking about that later.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It's the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals.

  Ted Nugent

  Summer, Hunting, Animal

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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