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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?Collection: New Orleans
In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
New Orleans is a glorious mutationCollection: New Orleans
Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.Collection: New Orleans
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.Collection: New Orleans
Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.Collection: New Orleans
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.Collection: New Orleans
I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.Collection: New Orleans
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.Collection: New Orleans
'Leonie' did get made and it was an extremely wonderful experience. I got to travel the world. I filmed for 6 months - 3 months in New Orleans and 3 months in Japan.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.Collection: New Orleans
I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.Collection: New Orleans
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.Collection: New Orleans
Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!'Collection: New Orleans
You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.Collection: New Orleans
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.Collection: New Orleans
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?Collection: New Orleans
You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?Collection: New Orleans
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.Collection: New Orleans
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.Collection: New Orleans
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.Collection: New Orleans
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.Collection: New Orleans
If she’s so important, why aren’t you here guarding her? (Wulf) Mostly because this ain’t Buffy and there’s not one single Hellmouth to guard. I’m up to my armpits in Armageddon down here in New Orleans and not even I can physically be in two places at once. (Acheron)Collection: New Orleans
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.Collection: New Orleans
New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.Collection: New Orleans
Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.Collection: New Orleans