"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."

-- Chris Rose

#Meaningful Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.”
“The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.”

Source : "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.
“The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.”
“Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.”
“One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. You're on foot and everyone is at street level and eye-to-eye. I think that's what's special about New York, because there's no hierarchy, there's no discrimination.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 5, 2009.
“Inertia is the death of creativity”
“The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'”

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