- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.
- Costa Rica
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
- District Attorney
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think New York City most represents what it is that America in general aspires to. It's big; it's dense. I've known this city from all of its social arcs. The best that's in America is yet to come. The worst that's in America is yet to come.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020