Chris Rose Quotes

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

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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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We dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

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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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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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Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

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It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

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