Chris Rose Quotes

#1. He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, to hell with the rest and I'll just start over kind of attitude.

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#2. If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom. -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

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#3. Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say.
Now everyone's got something to say.

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#4. Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.
If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

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#5. To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

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#6. The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

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#7. If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

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#8. Time is running out for the climate

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#9. As bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else.
-Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

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#10. This book is dedicated to Thomas Coleman, a retired longshoreman, who died in his attic at 2214 St. Roch Avenue in New Orleans' 8th Ward on or about August 29, 2005. He had a can of juice and a bedspread at his side when the waters rose. There were more than a thousand like him.

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#11. Even at the End of Days, there will be lap dancing.

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#12. A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons
make daiquiris.

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