Louisiana Quotes - Page 2

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

Kathleen Blanco

Men, Community, Fellow Man

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In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

Mark Duffy

Football, Gambling, Games

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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Ian Somerhalder

Grandchildren, Able, Way

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

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...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Dean Koontz

Mind, Swamps, Scene

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.180, Bantam

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Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

Nic Pizzolatto

Character, Stories, Landscape

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On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Meriwether Lewis

Government, Years, Acquisition

Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.46, tredition

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My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

Beth Henley

Play, Lucky, Firsts

"Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

Bobby Jindal

Oysters, Risk, Economy

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You never know. It started with me in Louisiana when I won Louisiana and I got fewer delegates than Ted Cruz. I win a state, I get fewer votes. Then, I poll great in Colorado and all of a sudden . . . the voters aren't going to choose. The bosses are going to choose. Anything is possible.

Donald Trump

Winning, Boss, Colorado

"Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

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Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

James Patterson

Maintenance, States

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My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

Bun B

Ducks, Parent, Different

Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A. J. Liebling

Principles, Politician, Difficulty

Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

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I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Johnny Knoxville

"On-Location Interview: Johnny Knoxville". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 30, 2005.

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I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.

Chris Rose

Home, Land, Essence

Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

Paul Tagliabue

Teamwork, Effort, Saint

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It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

Lindy Boggs

Blessed, Privilege, Ambassadors

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Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Kathleen Blanco

Elderly, Choices, Citizens

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I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

John Breaux

Two, United States, Problem

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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Jack L. Chalker

Kentucky, Mayors, Honorary

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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Jobs, Community, African American

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Louisiana taught me another level of humility. Everyone is so content, not socially content but spiritually. Everyone is happy with who they are and loves their city regardless of what has happened here with Katrina and all the different stories. They have a sense of pride and it really rubbed off on me.

Kofi Siriboe

Humility, Pride, Cities

Source: www.ebony.com

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All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

John Fogerty

Rivers, People, Water

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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

Sam Trammell

Country, Tree, Hot

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

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To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

Michael Doucet

Song, Survival, Identity

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The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.

C. Wright Mills

Order, Decision, Political

"The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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