New Orleans Quotes - Page 3

• We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Home, San Francisco, Staff

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• And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.

  Delta Burke

  French Quarter, Care, Quarters

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• The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Important, United States, Rebuilding

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• My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

  Allen Toussaint

  Garden, Breathing, Roles

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• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

  Michael Irvin

  Monday, Games, Favorite Day

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• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British Elle. It was April 14, 1986.

  Naomi Campbell

  Fashion, Jobs, United States

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Dad, Years, Anthem

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• I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.

  Sandra Bullock

  Summer, Letting Go, New Year

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• My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mother, Dad, Years

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• The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans

  Taryn Manning

  Interesting, Gone, Location

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• Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

  Al Roker

  Country, America, Sound

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• The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

  Richard Burr

  States, Inconvenience, Minors

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• Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

  Billy Tauzin

  Years, Venice, Water

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• I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

  John Goodman

  Appreciate, Stuff, Jazz

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• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  Ornette Coleman

  Hair, Long, Guy

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• New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?

  Danny Glover

  Jobs, Cities, People

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• There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

  Peter Max

  America, Highlights

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• The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Running, Country, Two

  "Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus". Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Growing Up, Self Esteem, Guy

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• But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, People, Water

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.205, 谷月社

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• I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

  Tyler Perry

  Swimming, Boys, Sea

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• When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Growing Up, Exercise

  "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Play, Vampire, Mythology

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

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• New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Cities, Atmosphere, Population

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