Michigan Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  School, America, Credit

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• I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

  Tom Izzo

  States, Michigan State

  "Tom Izzo makes wise decision", www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2010.

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

  Jim Harbaugh

  Coaching, University Of Michigan, University

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• Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Sight, Land

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed”, p.344, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

  James Wolk

  Summer, School, Play

  "James Wolk Interview LONE STAR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.

  Rhett Miller

  Song, Girlfriend, Night

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• Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

  Lily Tomlin

  Growing Up, Fine, I Realized

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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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• Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mars

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• In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

  James Henry Breasted

  Long, Doubt, Sake

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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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• My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico... and had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.

  Mitt Romney

  Dad, Stupid, Mean

  "Romney better off as a Latino?" by Ruben Navarrette, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2012.

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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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• It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

  James P. Hoffa

  Stories, Hiring, Industry

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• Michigan State already has one of the coolest mascots in college football, but if Sparty ever needs a day off, Javon Ringer could do the job. After all, he already does just about everything else for MSU.

  Javon Ringer

  Football, Jobs, College

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• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Home, Kids, Rocks

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by Gabrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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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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• Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

  Brent Musburger

  States, Hail, Right Now

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• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

  Benjamin Walker

  Teacher, Art, Odds

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.

  Geoffrey Fieger

  Religious, Kindness, Compassion

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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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