New Orleans Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Looks, Devastation, Planning

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• New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Cajuns, Cuisine, Creole

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• I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Libro, Escritura, Años

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• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Night, Air, August

  "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.

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• Si hubiera crecido en otro lugar que no fuera Nueva Orleans, no creo que mi carrera hubiera despegado. No habría escuchado la música que había en esta ciudad. Pasaban tantas cosas cuando yo era niño.

  Pete Fuente

  Tomado, Niños, Pensar

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• You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?

  Emeril Lagasse

  Years, Kind, Restaurants

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• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  Barack Obama

  Anniversary, Jobs, Fighting

  "New Orleans Residents Still Struggling To Get Back Home". Remarks from the Crescent City, www.npr.org. August 31, 2010.

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• Debemos a las víctimas de las inundaciones de Nueva Orleans darles respuestas veraces sobre el porqué de este suceso y asegurar a nuestros ciudadanos que tragedias como ésta no volverán a repetirse.

  Charles Rangel

  Giving, Tragedy, Citizens

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• What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

  Wynton Marsalis

  Citizens, World, Injustice

  "New Orleans Contemplates Its Racial Future". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 17, 2006.

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• Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Crazy, Character, Islands

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• There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Names, Differences, Guy

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• It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Democracy, Important

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• Fui a Nueva Orleans a cubrir el festival de jazz para Trio, el nuevo canal de arte, que es genial.

  Amy Sedaris

  Art, Festivals, Trios

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• My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  New York, Father, Records

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• You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

  Russel Honore

  Cities, Water, Vote

  "State of Emergency; Interview With Lieutenant General Russel Honore; President Bush To Nominate Roberts for Chief Justice of Supreme Court". "American Morning", www.cnn.com. September 5, 2005.

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• Hay una gran cantidad de disturbios en este país y cómo los negros se sienten acerca de lo que pasó en Katrina, y, ya sabes, muchos de los cómicos, muchos de los artistas están en Las Vegas y Nueva Orleans tratando de recaudar dinero para lo que pasó allí

  Michael Richards

  Country, Vegas, Black

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• I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

  Michael Chertoff

  Pain, Mistake, Thinking

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• Al igual que Venecia (Italia), Nueva Orleans es un tesoro cultural. Y todos los que vivieron en la ciudad deberían poder volver. Pero eso no significa que todos deban vivir exactamente en el mismo sitio que vivían antes.

  Ed McMahon

  Mean, Cities, Venice

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• The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

  Charles Rangel

  People, Black, Storm

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• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Movie, Kids, Play

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• For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

  Delta Burke

  Years, Towns

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• It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

  Jim Hightower

  Believe, Recovery, Agriculture

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• Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Book, Thinking, Perfect

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• A mi padre le encantaban los cantantes negros. Así que escuchando música de Nueva Orleans, al final quise tocar un instrumento.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Dad, Play, Black

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• This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kings, Opportunity, Giving

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