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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. Harry Anderson | top
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New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. Robert Asprin | top
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. Poppy Z. Brite | top
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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. Poppy Z. Brite | top
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We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy. Richard Carlson | top
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans. Michael Chertoff | top
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. Patricia Clarkson | top
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If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. Pete Fountain | top
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I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. John Goodman | top
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There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. John Hickenlooper | top
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.' Jim Hightower | top
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My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. Bill Kreutzmann | top
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I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. Steve Lacy | top
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You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food? Emeril Lagasse | top
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There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. Peter Max | top
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before. Ed McMahon | top
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. Jelly Roll Morton | top
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Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. Paul Prudhomme | top
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Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. Amy Sedaris | top
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana. Billy Tauzin | top
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New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans. Billy Tauzin | top
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Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. Billy Tauzin | top
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To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. Allen Toussaint | top
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The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? Lynn Westmoreland | top
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About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. Frank Yerby | top
