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The city of New Orleans with its famous coffee and beignets, Jazz Music and beautiful architecture will be back like never before


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New Orleans is an extraordinary city; its arts and architecture are cherished by people all over the...
DEBORAH MARROW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES From Harlem to Queens, New York City has always been at the center of the jazz music evolution. This...
CRISTYNE NICHOLAS I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the Fr...
ANIKA NONI ROSE Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans...
JACK STEWART Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON provide needed community and ... help the city of New Orleans continue its recovery.
MIKE ANTONOVICH New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music,...
RUTA SEPETYS Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there [in New Orleans]. I call it the onl...
RANDY JACKSON The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince...
IRVIN MAYFIELD We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans).
WYNTON MARSALIS New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.
MARK ADLER My husband and I used to visit New Orleans every couple of months. It's hard to imagine such a uniqu...
BARBARA UPTON We cannot live without it, ... A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans.
ARI KELMAN We've never done anything like this before. Our mission has always been to bring tourism to New York...
CRISTYNE NICHOLAS New Orleans has to rebuild not just its buildings and its political culture, but its image, ... The ...
JOEL KOTKIN What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and worl...
BRIA SKONBERG Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”
“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS On New York: This city sounds like jazz.
SHAKIRA This is indeed a historic moment in the life of the church of New Orleans, indeed for the whole city...
ALFRED HUGHES This is like a terrorist attack. With 9-11 they shut down five city blocks in New York City. This ha...
JOSEPH BURTON There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be in Louisiana. It will be as close to New Orleans as we...
QUINT DAVIS Music has served as a healing force many, many times in the past, and it will do so again at this ye...
CHARLIE JONES Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
ED MCMAHON I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the ja...
LAURA MVULA Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS [The war in the streets of Baghdad gave rise to the deaths of thousands in New Orleans and to the de...
GARY JONES New Orleans has always been cherished for its unique French Quarter, its fabulous cuisine, and music...
DAN SULLIVAN How do we rebuild a city that is so complicated, and interestingly so? ... There will be an impulse ...
KRISTINA FORD Honestly, payola has existed since the beginning of the music business so it's not like its some bra...
ALICIA KEYS The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY The Port of New Orleans alone imports 250,000 tons of coffee every year.
MARK ZANDI In New Orleans, 70 percent of their stations were flooded and many will never be useable again.
BILL METCALF There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There&#...
BLAKE LIVELY I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in whi...
YITZHAK SHAMIR With Hurricane Rita behind us, the task at hand is to bring New Orleans back. We want people to retu...
RAY NAGIN New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY Our city's tourism industry, which is now enjoying record highs, was revitalized with help and suppo...
CRISTYNE NICHOLAS If, coming out of this, ... New Orleans gets to lessen the burden of the social problems that its ci...
JACK DAVIS I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orlea...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. The jam band idiom is kind of the new jazz as these kids will be growing up with this music as this ...
BOB WEIR From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orl...
GARY LAGRANGE We are extremely grateful to Dave Matthews Band and the wonderful citizens of Denver for stepping up...
BRANFORD MARSALIS New Orleans did not have a robust economy to begin with. I think it's going to be very difficult for...
EARL BLACK These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged b...
CEDRIC RICHMOND [Lopez showed up at City Hall, with Affleck in tow, for the formation of a new commission to attract...
JENNIFER LOPEZ Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in...
YITZHAK SHAMIR an insider's narrative account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that will locate its roots in the c...
RANDOM HOUSE Something's wrong with New Orleans. Somebody wants that city gone.
JAMMAL BROWN There was a certain creative intelligence that flowered in New Orleans, and that creative intelligen...
DEBORAH ROBERTS There is the understanding of the music and culture of the area. The band has studied the idea of th...
WADE PRESLEY We are pleased to return Norwegian Sun back to her winter home in the Big Easy and in some small way...
ANDY STUART Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing i...
RICHARD FORD Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know? Like what happened in the ...
JAN HAMMER The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened...
BRIA SKONBERG The food, the jazz culture, the lovely ladies; I miss everything about New Orleans.
JUSTIN SPICER My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to liv...
BEN VAN BERKEL I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in N...
TRACE ADKINS Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the c...
ANDREI CODRESCU If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
RAY DAVIES Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN We will be having our jazz jam on Fat Tuesday with many special guests, food and drink specials to h...
LEE FRANKEL Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during...
ANAT COHEN Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not g...
PAUL PRUDHOMME It seems like he was rediscovered, perhaps in the last decade and a half. A lot of new New Orleans m...
MICHAEL HURTT New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't...
CAMILLE STRACHAN I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed lik...
STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Hurricane Katrina may have silenced my hometown for now. But if we all work together through efforts...
ROGER LEWIS Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...
WYNTON MARSALIS The New Orleans I knew is gone, ... It's never going to come back. I'm just grateful I had my years ...
AL HIRT I do hope there is a possibility of getting back to the area and getting New Orleans rebuilt. There'...
CYNTHIA BROWN It's a sad day in the city of new orleans when a hero makes a decision like this, ... He leaves the ...
RAY NAGIN I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY

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EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE