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ALLEN TOUSSAINT
When the plane was coming in from New Orleans, a message went out over the BlackBerry.
SHAUN CODY
He loved to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. He went 11 years in a row.
DOUG MACGREGOR
It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans, ... The displacement of the populati...
GEORGE FRIEDMAN
My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON
We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... He’s 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the def...
JIM GARRISON
I'm in touch with my grandma, she's in Indiana, my uncle, he went back to New Orleans and I got a co...
ELAINE NUNN
New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'
JONAH HILL
New Orleans in an amazing town.
BENJAMIN WALKER
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grav...
AARON NEVILLE
Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans.
CYRIL NEVILLE
It's heritage. This is our roots, where free blacks and slaves worshipped together with owners.
JOHN POWELL (NEW ORLEANS PARISHIONER)
Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken ...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, t...
CHRIS ROSE
Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they...
CHRIS ROSE
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never for...
ANNE RICE
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faul...
CHRIS ROSE
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
NIKKI SIXX
there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darknes...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE
Harrah's New Orleans is a vitally important property to us, and we want one of our most skilled oper...
ANTHONY SANFILIPPO
We went through this a few years ago from Charlotte to New Orleans and a lot of the things are still...
JEFF BOWER
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
AARON NEVILLE
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
POPPY Z. BRITE
The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable,
MIKE TIDWELL
The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.
MIKE TIDWELL
The church in New Orleans is alive,
ALFRED HUGHES
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI
If it came ashore with the intensity it has now and went to the New Orleans area, it would be the st...
ED RAPPAPORT
In New Orleans, France is alive and well.
GENE CASTILLON
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
PATRICIA CLARKSON
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted...
ISABEL ALLENDE
It's surreal because I was comparing it to the New Orleans I went to for conventions and meetings, ....
BRUCE WALLACE
The paining that I painted is a spell to revitalize New Orleans, since New Orleans is home to mystic...
DANNY SIMMONS
A Newer New Orleans.
ART NEVILLE
Walking To New Orleans.
ALICIA KEYS
Walking To New Orleans
FATS DOMINO
My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I'm worried about all the people in New Orleans.
FATS DOMINO
In New Orleans, gluttony is a way of life.
MORTON J. HORWITZ
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly at...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."

-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE
Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two...
TOM ROBBINS
New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He wen...
MARGO JEFFERSON
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI
Go on the streets of New Orleans - it's secure, ... Have you been to New Orleans? Did anybody accost...
SALVATION ARMY
We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.
WALTER BAUMY
I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD
It's all about New Orleans.
ELAINE PETROCELLI
I'm through with New Orleans.
JOSETTE AUTRY
As clean as we were against New Orleans, we were that sloppy against Dallas tonight. We were just ca...
MIKE HOLMGREN
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
TARYN MANNING
New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.
NICOLE GALE ANDERSON
New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.
NICOLE ANDERSON
If New Orleans passes on this opportunity to improve itself, then we're not going to be a company he...
DEAN TAYLOR
Everything that you didn't like about New Orleans, let's get rid of it. Everything that you liked ab...
RAY NAGIN
Somebody brought up the idea, what if we went to New Orleans and helped down there in reconstruction...
KEATON THOMAS
Katrina totally wiped out New Orleans , ... The dealerships that were impacted are still under water...
LONNIE MILLER
Whatever crap they were doing in New Orleans, they're doing here.
ALVIN WRIGHT
Hey, I saw Mike Ditka cry in New Orleans,'' Glover said.
MIKE DITKA
There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.
HAROLD SCHAITBERGER
[New Orleans] basically sits like a bowl, and most of the city is under sea level ... so if we get a...
RAY NAGIN
kicking New Orleans while it's down.
HENRY CISNEROS
New Orleans looks like Baghdad underwater.
JOHN BREAUX
We Are Taking New Orleans Back.
THE CLARION-LEDGER
We want to rebuild New Orleans.
BRUCE KARATZ
It's a tribute to New Orleans.
LISA PLETINCKS
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in...
RUTH RENDELL
We certainly would have preferred that the mayor talk to us before he went to the press given that w...
JAN JONES
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
We're still the New Orleans Saints. New Orleans is still cheering for us and we have San Antonio on ...
DONTE' STALLWORTH
In September, we had to move up from New Orleans during the hurricane. I like it here because you ge...
CHRIS JONES
After this killer in New Orleans, Katrina, I just cannot fathom staying.
LDYYAN JEAN JOCQUE
New Orleans had one of the most rooted populations in the nation.
JARVIS DEBERRY
One of the doctors was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit.
JENNI FAULKNER
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
HARRY CONNICK, JR.
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New O...
DOUG E. FRESH
We don't know how quickly the flood waters came to New Orleans, ... I heard some man-on-the-street i...
BEVERLY CIGLER
Once reconstruction really gets under way in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we're expecting to see ...
FRANK HOLMES
I never much liked New Orleans anyway.
ANDREW CLARK
the watery graveyard that is New Orleans.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
It really all started with New Orleans.
GINNY BISHOP
I don't want to leave New Orleans,
FRED RUSSELL
The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN
We're working in a certain way under John and we're heading in the right direction,
CARL ROBINSON
..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New O...
BILLY SOTHERN
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was hom...
ANNE RICE
Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.
WAYNE GANDY
My prayers are with the people in New Orleans, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia,
DON HARRISON
I think what took place in New Orleans got their attention big time,
HENRY GARRETT
There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans,
JEB BUSH
We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, i...
BRUCE S. GORDON
We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ......
HARRY REID
This part of the city is under siege, and we are here to re-establish order; that's what we will do....
LARRY BLACK
The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.
MICHAEL DAVIS
but it wouldn't be the historical New Orleans.
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE
I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON