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


Derek Jeter

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ELAINE STRITCH A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.
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LOREN SMITH I know at the end of that first overtime that Michigan State was done.
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BRIAN CALHOUN A Michigan man will coach Michigan.
BO SCHEMBECHLER I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salv...
JESMYN WARD Obviously, this Michigan game is huge for us after coming off back-to-back, double-win weekends. Thi...
JUSTIN ABDELKADER What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pr...
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DONALD HALL It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.
TONY LA RUSSA I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan.
RICK SNYDER The first thing that we need in Michigan is jobs. That's why I'm running is to create jobs in this s...
DICK DEVOS There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
JENNIFER GRANHOLM Michigan-Michigan State basketball, I don't talk to him. He calls me. He wants to talk.
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DAN QUISENBERRY It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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SARAH JESSICA PARKER I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.
JANA KRAMER If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.
TOM IZZO You don't have to be from Michigan to attend.
BILL KRUEGER I'd give Michigan stocks a C-. U.S. stocks didn't do much better.
DAVID SOWERBY I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, un...
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JASON BARBOSE I can't think of a clearer signal to investors to stay away from Michigan than that. It's one of the...
PATRICK ANDERSON We're strong, we're coming up in Michigan.
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ADAM PATTERSON The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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ERIC NYSTROM The state of Michigan going to Trump was an amazing thing. Of course the fake news media was shocked...
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DEBBIE STABENOW I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fir...
JEFF DANIELS By not keeping their commitment, (Michigan ) Gov. (John) Engler and (state party) Chairman (Rusty) H...
JOHN WEAVER They called him the Michigan Mauler.
MARK WAHLBERG Most schools in Michigan have only one gym.
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MICHIGAN STATE This was a 15-rounder and then some, ... In the end Nebraska made more plays than we did.
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MICHELLE OBAMA for northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.
JENNIFER M. GRANHOLM It's like the Michigan game last year,
ANTHONY SCHLEGEL California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.
JENNIFER GRANHOLM The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
MICKEY MANTLE No wonder Michigan is having such a hard time.
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BILL MARTIN Wales is delighted to be partnering with the state of Michigan, who we consider to be a leader in th...
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DAN RATHER Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
MARIO BATALI When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE Michigan State is a fine basketball team, no doubt about it. We're proud of what they've done for ou...
EILEEN KLEINFELTER I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assistin...
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NICK DELGUIDICE One of the favorite things I've learned about Michigan State is that they set up a 'Women...
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KAE DONLEVY Anybody who would take Michigan lightly has got to be out of their mind. I don't care if Michigan wa...
JOE PATERNO It was a great moment for Michigan and for Michigan softball. I was so proud of those kids. They wer...
CAROL HUTCHINS We're from Michigan. We're only excited because it's in Detroit.
JEFF SCHAFFER Jeff Van Gundy is a Baxter. Derek Jeter? So not a Baxter. Howard Stern is not a Baxter. And Bernie K...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER What Michigan has done is put together its best recruiting class in years. Michigan competes with Oh...
DUANE LONG It's huge. This is my fourth year and playing Michigan is definitely No. 1. I love it. The intensity...
COREY POTTER Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.
LEE IACOCCA It's as competitive as it's been since I've been at Michigan State.
TOM IZZO I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words &#...
MIKE POSNER We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.
ALAN LAMB The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies...
BOB BECKEL I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
DAVID ALAN GRIER The people of Michigan will play an important role in this survey,
JOE JOHNSON Michigan State is the favorite. After that, there's a lump of teams.
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CAROLYN PORCO My confidence was fine (against Eastern Michigan),
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DEREK JARMAN Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH