Louisiana Quotes - Page 6

• [On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

  Jackie Kennedy

  America, Adorable, Looks

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• Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, United States, Half

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• I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Oklahoma, Dollars, Leaves Of Grass

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• When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Cutting, Government, Tree

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• In Louisiana, President Bush met with over 15,000 National Guard troops. Here's the weird part, nobody remembers seeing him there.

  Craig Kilborn

  President, Troops, Remember

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• I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

  Jeff Mangum

  College, Easy, Down The Road

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• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Inspiration, Home

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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• Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.

  Tim Ryan

  Fighting, Reality, Two

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• And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

  William Joyce

  Teacher, Lucky, Enough

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• I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.

  Ester Dean

  Coffee, Emotional, Feet

  "Pitch Perfect's Ester Dean Tells Us Exactly How She Wrote Rihanna and Nicki Minaj's Latest Hits (and It Involves Vampires!)" by Jen Weinberg, www.glamour.com. October 5, 2012.

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• One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.

  Justin Simien

  Mother, Growing Up, Community

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

  A. J. Liebling

  Games, Play, New Orleans

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• If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

  Charley Pride

  Texas, Different, Detroit

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• It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

  Todd Farmer

  Valentine, Mean, Oklahoma

  Source: collider.com

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• Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Home, Animal, Oil

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Pain, Engineering, Sea

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• I want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.

  Donna Brazile

  Couple, August, People

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Home, Support You

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

  Margaret Atwood

  Punishment, Cities, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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