New Orleans Quotes - Page 12

• Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

  Dr. John

  Land, Cities, Levels

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• There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.

  Jeffrey Robinson

  People, Way, Unfolding

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• I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

  Anika

  Beautiful, Garden, Thinking

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• Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

  Peyton Manning

  Nfl, People, Conversation

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• In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.

  Lewis Black

  People, Different, Canada

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

  Isabel Allende

  Historical, Stories, Firsts

  "Allende Examines the Caribbean's Chaotic History Through New Novel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2010.

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• I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Moving

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Government, People, Doubt

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• My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Unique, Thinking

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• We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Educational, Kids, Class

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• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  Mark Skousen

  Cards, Investment, Social

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• New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Home, Doors

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, Cities, Leaving

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.15, LSU Press

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• So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Suicide, Thinking, Blue

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (2005). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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• When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives. At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there." But now, it's just: "I'm sorry." Man, that kills me. That just kills me.

  Chris Rose

  Sorry, Men, People

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Anniversary, Opportunity, House

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

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• The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.

  Duke Ellington

  Trying, Too Late, Association

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• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.

  Amy Poehler

  Cities, Nuts, Chocolate

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• Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city
  5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Smart, Assessment, Sea

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• Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.

  Richard Ford

  Memories, Self, Cities

  "Elegy for my city" by Richard Ford, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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• What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

  Jamie Foxx

  Party, Men

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• One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Cities, White, People

  "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

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• One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Beautiful, Simple, People

  "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

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• It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Heart, Cities, People

  "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

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