New Orleans Quotes - Page 9

• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, Boston

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• For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Drinking, Long, Smoking

  "What Ellen DeGeneres Knows for Sure (She Thinks)". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. December 2009.

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• Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

  Danny Barker

  People, Competition, Battle

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• The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

  Danny Barker

  Play, Two, Sound

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• Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

  Danny Barker

  Player, Giving, Band

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• Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

  Clint Walker

  Summer, Marine, Rivers

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• I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Thinking, Air

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised me, "If you want to help people, go work at an investment bank." His contrarian advice opened my eyes to the importance of capital. "Learn how to make some money before you give it away." I learned that you can bring about good in the world especially if you have a paycheck.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Eye, Cities, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously.

  Ricky Williams

  Pain, People, Shy

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• I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching.

  Glen Davis

  Oxygen, Car, Flow

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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• New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Community, Culture, World

  "Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard Interview GREEN LANTERN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 13, 2011.

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• Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

  Aaron Broussard

  Caring, Agency, People

  "Senate Plans Hearings on Slow FEMA Response". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. September 7, 2005.

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• When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, Oysters, Vegetables

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 2, 2012.

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• You saw on your TV what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Reserves or National Guard are usually the people we use for those national emergencies. They weren't here, they were over in Iraq, and so we were less protected.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Iraq, People, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

  Joel Plaskett

  Stars, Cities, People

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.

  Sam Harris

  Prayer, Men, Elderly

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• Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His plans. Had the residents of New Orleans been content to rely on the beneficence of God, they wouldn't have known that a killer hurricane was bearing down upon them until they felt the first gusts of wind on their faces. And yet, as will come as no surprise to you, a poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.

  Sam Harris

  Wind, Atheism, Firsts

  Sam Harris (2011). “Letter To A Christian Nation”, p.53, Random House

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• I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and say, 'I know where I am now.'

  Aaron Neville

  Beautiful, Sight, Flying

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• It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.

  Ray Nagin

  Cities, African American, Chocolate

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• New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.

  James Cagney

  Mean, Night, Sea

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• I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

  Tyler Perry

  People, Proud, Poverty

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.

  Rodney Jerkins

  Inspiration, Feelings, Firsts

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I'm home in New Orleans!

  Ani DiFranco

  Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Moving, School, Kids

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