New Orleans Quotes - Page 7

• New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Europe, Leaving, United States

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• The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.

  Drew Brees

  Athlete, Player, Years

  "Nfl Draft Is Today, Drew Brees Steals Its Thunder With 'madden Nfl 11' Cover" by Brian Warmoth, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2010.

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• I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

  Henry Clay

  Believe, Complicated, Killing

  "Seventh president a mass of contradictions" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2008.

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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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• 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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• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  Wendell Pierce

  Real, Men, Cities

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2011.

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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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• people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.

  Nora Ephron

  Cities, People, Care

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.301, Vintage

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• Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Crush, Queens, Revenge

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• New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

  Billie Holiday

  Cities, Nylon, World

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• There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

  Bob Dylan

  Boys, Social Taboos, House

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• You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Squares, Hips, Musician

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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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• New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Excellence, Jazz

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• I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Heart, Thinking, Artist

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• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  Wendell Pierce

  Cat, Play, People

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.

  Steve Perry

  People, Mind, Way

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• When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

  Ken Jeong

  Night, Doctors, Comedy

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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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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• Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Virginia, Hawaii

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1156, Penguin

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• There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

  George W. Bush

  Running, People, Decision

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Animal, Oysters

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• As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.

  Troy Andrews

  Mom, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Trombone Shorty: 'Backatown' New Orleans Funk". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 1, 2010.

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• Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?

  Troy Andrews

  Fun, Block, Beer

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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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