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“At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?”

Made Spirit Mother Dies Figures Treats Sick Busy Financial Heal New Orleans Too Busy Public Figures Time Heals

Author:Tom Piazza

“The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.”

Past Cities New Orleans American Cities

Book:Why New Orleans Matters

Source: Why New Orleans Matters

“In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.”

Bigs Life Is Individual Steps Cutting Bigger Sake Streams Decent Funeral New Orleans Short Time Individual Life

Author:Tom Piazza

“An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.”

States United United States New Orleans Mardi Gras

Book:The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel

Source: The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel

“You get a taste here in New Orleans that you don't get anywhere else in the country.”

Country Taste New Orleans

Author:Regis Philbin

“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.”

Littles Play Kids Actors My Own Movie New Orleans

Author:Ray Walston

“Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.”

Ifs Mother Nature Cities Building New Orleans Mother Nature

Author:Mortimer Zuckerman

“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?”

People Jobs Pay Cities Wonder Industry Extraordinary Wages New Orleans Living Wage Service Industry

Author:Danny Glover

“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.”

People Knows May Self Today Left Black Water Memories Poor Cities Knowing Standing Flood Homeless New Orleans Overlooked Eccentricity Rooftops Self Knowing

Author:Richard Ford

“About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.”

Water Half Sun Sea Rivers Strikes Miles Golden Yellow Continents Fifteen Mud New Orleans

Author:Frank Yerby

“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.”

“New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.”

Cities New Orleans Elegance Refinement

Author:Tom Piazza

“What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!”

Men Party New Orleans

Author:Jamie Foxx

“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”

Littles Two Self States United Cities United States Obsessed New Orleans San Francisco Self Obsessed

Book:Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

“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.”

People Together Individual Black White Cities Generations Special Diverse New Orleans Mayors New Generation Special Things

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“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.”

People Wells Important Together Beautiful Simple Rich Diversity Weakness Notion Focused New Orleans Gumbo

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“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.”

People Trying Heart Soul Helping Wanted Common Cities Theme New Orleans Resilient

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.”

People Way Mind Rocks Bottom Get Better New Orleans

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.”

Play Next Music Is Concepts Contemporary Swings New Orleans Highlights Continuum

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!”

“White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.”

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.”

Labor Trade Slave Appropriate Ownership New Orleans Payment Purchasing

Author:Ned Sublette

“New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.”

States United Practice United States Keys Music Is Importance Historical Musical Spread Factors Strongest New Orleans Cliche Mississippi American Music

Author:Ned Sublette

“I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.”

Jobs Office Phones Following Theatre Cooks Restaurants Bowls Tickets New Orleans Super Bowl Sellers Nannies Movie Theatre

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“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.”

Writing Years Firsts Book Wanted Honest New Orleans Explaining

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“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.”

People Knows Air Cameras New Orleans Bourbon

Author:Brad Pitt

“If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.”

Ifs Guy Found Sells Climate Fingers Smell If I Could Bottles New Orleans Cradle Incomplete Fraternity Flipped Goodman Chromosomes

Author:John Goodman

“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.”

People Wells Made Water Built Rain Towns Complaining Graves New Orleans Cellars Rain Water

Book:Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections

“Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.”

“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.”

Ifs World Country States America Turns Sound United United States Scene Thirds United States Of America New Orleans Third World Sudan Third World Countries

Author:Al Roker

“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.”

Heard Citizens Evidence Conspiracy Participation New Orleans Jury John Kennedy Grand Jury

Author:Jim Garrison

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

Water Cities Vote New Orleans

Author:Russel Honore

“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.”

Care Take Care Quarters New Orleans Camaraderie French Quarter

Author:Delta Burke

“My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.”

Play Wanted Black Listening Dad Instruments My Dad Singers New Orleans

Author:Bill Kreutzmann

“New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.”

Born Raised New Orleans Born And Raised

Author:Patricia Clarkson

“What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.”

Mean Interesting New Orleans Cuba Port Ferry

Author:Ruben Blades

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

States Minors New Orleans Inconvenience

Author:Richard Burr

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

Years Towns New Orleans

Author:Delta Burke

“In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.”

Cooking Heritage New Orleans Louisiana

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.”

Ifs World Dies Disappear Crucial Heritage New Orleans

Author:Ray Davies

“I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.”

Born New Orleans

Author:Kitty Carlisle

“The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.”

Needs Water Opinion Highest Areas Structure Population Humble Priorities New Orleans Interim

Author:Billy Tauzin

“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.”

Giving Happens Answers Events Citizens Tragedy Victim Truthful Flood New Orleans

Author:Charles Rangel

“Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.”

Should Mean Cities Treasure Spots New Orleans Venice

Author:Ed McMahon

“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.”

Kind Used Father Records New York Radio All Kinds Collections New Orleans

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.”

Needs Country Shows Water Plans Serious Masters Critical Signals New Orleans Rebuilding

Author:Billy Tauzin

“The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?”

Looks Said Situation Week Conditions Billions Appropriate New Orleans

Author:Lynn Westmoreland

“And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.”

Ifs Thinking Process Heard Citizens Shapes Secure Contemplating Coming Back New Orleans Rebuilding Levees

Author:Billy Tauzin

“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.”

Looks Has Beens Happened Disaster Planning New Orleans Could Have Been Magnitude Devastation

Author:John Hickenlooper

“There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.”

Stuff Situation Heard Musician Happenings Vices Appreciated New Orleans Vice Versa Havana

Author:Ruben Blades

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