#orleans

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

#country #critical #everyone #fear #how

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

#brightest #building #city #codes #come

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#away #build #businesses #channel #highest

Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#back #because #been #beginning #brought

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ignatius-j-reilly #new-orleans #humor

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 ↗

— Chris Rose

#freedom #fun #new-orleans #freedom

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. ↗

— Delta Burke

#come #had #i #just #like

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#freedom #good #i #i love #live

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. ↗

— Peter Max

#back #comes #highlight #like #new

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought. ↗

— Harold Perrineau

#find #fun #had #i #interesting