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I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.
Being in the city of New Orleans, meeting the people, it's been nothing but hospitality and a lot of love.
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.
I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.
I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.
People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with that.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel fan.
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.
I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism.
I was on a strict diet to stay in shape for 'Jack Reacher,' but each day on set in New Orleans, catering dropped off delicious food at my trailer.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.