"It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better."

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Source : "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

Mitch Landrieu

#Heart Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Cities Quotes

“If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, your the government.”
“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.112, Penguin
“The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.”
“It's only pain, it will not hurt you.”
“I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.”
“If you do not change, you can become extinct !”

Source : Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.27, Penguin
“Hopefully 10 years from now people won't even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.”
“I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.”

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