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A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.


Derek Ambrose

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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O...
DOUG E. FRESH Obviously, the people of New Orleans have not registered anywhere else. That's the story. They want ...
ERNIE ROBERSON There are actually a lot of New Orleans natives in the area. They have their own social network, and...
JACE HARRIS There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL We've helped the state a lot. When people watch our games, they forget they're living in a trailer i...
GARRETT TEMPLE I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot...
IRVIN MAYFIELD I think a lot of them stayed there knowing they could loot and get away with it. New Orleans is a wo...
DAVID HURLEY I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.
CHARLES POLLOCK In New Orleans, gluttony is a way of life.
MORTON J. HORWITZ I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted...
ISABEL ALLENDE We certainly want to get Louisiana people back to Louisiana and ultimately New Orleans people back t...
ERNEST JOHNSON There are several physicians who are feeling like they want to stay in the New Orleans area. They wa...
STEVEN CAMPANINI People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans w...
JOEL KOTKIN It will reveal a lot about the power structure of New Orleans.
LAWRENCE VALE I'm of the opinion that they might not stay. To live in New Orleans, you've got to love it. I don't ...
HERB GOMEZ New Orleans has a lot of underutilized space and property. There is a huge opportunity to attract pe...
CAMILLE STRACHAN People don't really understand that a lot of those people are not going back to New Orleans. You don...
WAYNE GANDY Now we get people from New York City, California, Colorado. It's a fun party. In the past, some peop...
MACK BRADLEY Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they lo...
LUCY MCCANN A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE These houses feel cozy and safe. A lot of love goes into them. People only work with us because they...
BARBARA MANNING It's something that we want to do for New Orleans, ... A lot of people look at us as not only reps o...
SAN ANTONIO provide needed community and ... help the city of New Orleans continue its recovery.
MIKE ANTONOVICH We want to rebuild New Orleans.
BRUCE KARATZ It's common sense. This is a city people love to visit, and this is one of the events that makes New...
ED MUNIZ We thought we'd be back home by now and life as we knew it in New Orleans would continue, ... But wh...
JAMAR NESBIT It's sad. There's so much poverty there to start with, and it's sad to see a lot of these people who...
BRIAN YOUNG We've tried to find out if they can reschedule. ... We'd obviously love to keep that business in New...
DONNA KARL It seems like he was rediscovered, perhaps in the last decade and a half. A lot of new New Orleans m...
MICHAEL HURTT The people of New Orleans are a people of faith, and we can begin to explore the possibilities, ... ...
ALFRED HUGHES I don't want to leave New Orleans,
FRED RUSSELL Our first priority is life-saving missions to get all the people that are victims that are stranded ...
DAN CRAIG We believe strongly in the faith-based thing that President Bush is trying to put to us. People help...
DON CARNAHAN Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say ...
ANDY ROONEY In September, we had to move up from New Orleans during the hurricane. I like it here because you ge...
CHRIS JONES A lot of talk at the time was, 'Well, there goes the wooden city. Now we can build something grander...
LAWRENCE VALE We have obtained a list of people who say that they had firearms taken by the New Orleans Police Dep...
DAN HOLLIDAY We heard from one family that is having prescription problems because their pharmacy closed down in ...
JOE ROBINSON Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Out of sensitivity to the people of New Orleans.
MACK BRADLEY We'll continue to support organizations that improve the quality of life for us all. The landmark to...
HERB BOYDSTUN Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two...
TOM ROBBINS This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know...
HAAN PHELPS This is indeed a historic moment in the life of the church of New Orleans, indeed for the whole city...
ALFRED HUGHES [Floodwaters were still rising as much as 3 inches, or 7.6 centimeters, an hour in parts of New Orle...
MICHAEL BROWN Most of these people don't have jobs to go back to because New Orleans is gone. They're going to hav...
JOANNE NIGG We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to...
PAULA BROWN Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to ...
ANDY ROONEY We want to make sure that the people of New Orleans have a right to vote and to be active in their c...
DENNIS HAYES I understand they want to stay in their homes, but I tell you there is a very volatile situation in ...
RAY NAGIN A lot of people are thinking, 'I'll be back in New Orleans. I think that's the case with diabetics, ...
LISA CLARK What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE A lot of people who want to start their own business never get to it because they don't take the ris...
MARSHA DAVIS I think it could be a symbol perhaps of the rebuilding of New Orleans. There are a lot of good memor...
DOUG THORNTON I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school i...
PARKER POSEY It is New Orleans: We want them to know that the very next day there is help for them available and ...
CHAR SCHROEDER They may be the new service class in New Orleans. It only takes a few people to put down roots and b...
LAWRENCE POWELL They can put me in jail, I'm 70 years old, and I want to come home. If I am going to die, I want to ...
GLORIA IRVING I'm worried about all the people in New Orleans.
FATS DOMINO Sports in this country are huge. This season is a chance for us to be uplifting for the city, no mat...
ALFRED FINCHER We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, i...
BRUCE S. GORDON In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ......
HARRY REID I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN The half-life of the memory of a flood is very short. You can already hear it in Washington, D.C.: N...
GERALD GALLOWAY It shows a lot of character on the city of Houston for the way it opened up its arms to the people o...
DANIEL EWING There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way...
JEFFREY ROBINSON We can talk in the abstract about what a rebuilt New Orleans would look like. In the end that is not...
JIM SCHWAB They're from New Orleans without a home, ... I think this means a lot to them.
DAVID SAPERSTEIN Mostly people read books because they just love to read it, cause they may also learn a lot from it,...
BRADLEY B. DALINA There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more log...
DAVID BOAZ A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have heal...
NATALIE COLE If you want to get some soul in your body, New Orleans is the place!
ALTON WILLIAMS The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas...
JACK ALLEN But protecting New Orleans will take a lot more than $2 billion.
ROBERT TWILLEY A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks.
KATE HUDSON In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans ...
BORIS VIAN A lot of people want to donate to this and it won't take a lot of cash to do this because of in-kind...
BRIAN BRUSH You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN We in New Orleans are a people of faith, ... What if this tragedy should push ourselves to a greater...
C. HUGHES I know what it means to the people down there, because I have an uncle and his wife who lived in New...
JEFF NELSON We are blessed, ... Many people back in New Orleans, they don't have anything. We feel gratitude for...
ANNE MARIE It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans, ... The displacement of the populati...
GEORGE FRIEDMAN It's a lot different here (Lancaster), but it's still nice. In New Orleans, you know, there were a l...
CHAZ FONTENTOT Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans...
JACK STEWART I know and you know people who would not leave without their pets. They will stay. They did stay in ...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved a...
STEVE YATES We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left,
KATIE JOHNSON There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY People suffer setback in career, business and life because they love to stay in their comfort zone.
ARVIND MEHTA I would expect eminent domain to play a significant role in the rebuilding of New Orleans. My guess ...
BART PETERSON In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH We haven't challenged it. They are here (in New Orleans), and we are co-existing.
BILL OLIVER We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-c...
DAVID BROOKS People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is e...
BILL KELLER A lot of people don't want a million-dollar house. They just want to live a simple life and catch fi...
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AMBROSE BIERCE One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was onc...
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled wh...
AMBROSE BIERCE When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
AMBROSE BIERCE Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of...
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