Michigan Quotes - Page 4

• With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

  Bill Schuette

  Government, Cities, America

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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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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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Sports, Team, Two

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• I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

  Steven Yeun

  Basketball, Football, Brother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

  Brent Musburger

  States, Hail, Right Now

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was sitting at a friend's place in Michigan on vacation, having a beer on the patio. I was a little hefty. I said to myself: "Okay, I'm going to finish this weekend off strong, then after that I'm going to shut her down. I'm going to start taking better care of myself."

  Chris Pronger

  Strong, Beer, Weekend

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Jim Harbaugh

  Coaching, University Of Michigan, University

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mars

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