Quotes About New Orleans Chris Rose

#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. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

Subcomandante Marcos

#5. Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.

Emily Arden

#6. The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

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#9. I'll never love anyone like I love him, and I'll always be his whether I'm with him or not.

Samantha Towle

#10. Like being alive one moment and dead the next.

Courtney Summers

#11. 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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#12. I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers.

Bauvard

#13. 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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#14. Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Luce Irigaray

#15. People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped Author unknown

Lynelle Clark

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

Chris Rose