Quotes about new-orleans
new-orleans towns
New Orleans in an amazing town. Benjamin Walker
new-orleans people black
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. Charles Rangel
new-orleans giving tragedy
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Charles Rangel
new-orleans years towns
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. Delta Burke
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There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. Bob Dylan
new-orleans air people
I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera. Brad Pitt
new-orleans trying treasure
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place. Blake Lively
new-orleans trials murder
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now. Aaron Broussard
new-orleans progress pace
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. Allen Toussaint
new-orleans talking new-day
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. Branford Marsalis
new-orleans rivers illinois
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans. Clint Walker
new-orleans effort relief
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough. Angelina Jolie
new-orleans trying too-late
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
new-orleans dies
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans... Dr. John
new-orleans people united-states
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans." David Simon
new-orleans sometimes feels
I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again. Daniel Tosh
new-orleans musical together
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that. David Byrne
new-orleans earth annoying
New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth. David Letterman
new-orleans mutation glorious
New Orleans is a glorious mutation Anthony Bourdain
new-orleans trying earth
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. Anthony Bourdain
new-orleans cities roots
It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue. Bill Taylor
new-orleans dancing without-music
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing? Ellen DeGeneres
new-orleans looks devastation
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. John Hickenlooper
new-orleans oxygen car
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
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. James Gandolfini
new-orleans citizens john-kennedy
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. Jim Garrison
new-orleans people way
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
new-orleans giving life-gives-you-lemons
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris. Chris Rose
new-orleans people stories
Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say. Chris Rose
new-orleans laughing funeral
we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't. Chris Rose
new-orleans
The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else. Chris Rose
new-orleans america boredom
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose Chris Rose
new-orleans scripture sticks
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. Jelly Roll Morton