Michigan Quotes - Page 3

• Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mars

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• I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

  Gordie Howe

  Wife, Healthy, Cadillacs

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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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.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Ohio, Car

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

  Denard Robinson

  Team, Fighting, Play

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• Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Coaching, University Of Michigan, University

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• In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

  Justin Amash

  Years, Balance, Shuffling

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• I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

  Danny Brown

  Thinking, Littles, Detroit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Jobs, Want, Matter

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• In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, Cabins, Valleys

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• I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

  Stephen King

  Children, Nice, Mean

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.

  Joey King

  Mom, Crazy, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Children, Book, Reading

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• A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

  Tyler Oakley

  Florida, California, London

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• I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Swimming, Lakes, Sick

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Ohio, Giving

  "All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines/ Bury the Naysayers/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

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• I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Morning, Special

  Jim Harbaugh during Press Conference, mgoblue.com. December 30, 2014.

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• Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Cities, White, African American

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.

  Sander Levin

  Thinking, People, Car

  "Saving the Abrams Tank Project" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor

  Taylor Lautner

  Stars, Feet, Hands

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• I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

  Margo Martindale

  Cat, Years, Hot

  "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

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• I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

  Sam Raimi

  Team, Kids, Actors

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 29, 2004.

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• Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.

  Paul Kersey

  Jobs, Way, Needs

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• Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Fashion, Editors

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.3302, e-artnow

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• Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, America

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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