More - James Burke Quotes

It's a city in which all forms of eccentricity were not just tolerated but always welcomed. There is no way to shock people in New Orleans. Tennessee Williams found a home there, and it's no coincidence.

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Illegal firearms are a much more pervasive problem than they used to be,

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 Firearms

New Orleans was always America's netherworld, a sexual playground, like the Baths of Caracalla at the bottom of a Puritan country. Its history is emblematic of every event that has occurred in our history - the pre-Revolutionary colonial era, the age of exploration, and slavery, extermination of native Americans, and then of course the war between the states, it's all right there in the city of New Orleans.

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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

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 Rejection

It's really too early to tell. We'd like to see the numbers for the next month, month and a half before we can figure out why they are riding the bus.

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We used beach access as a metaphor for this issue. People for the most part can stroll around and use the beach. We think the preserves should have the same thing.

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 Metaphor

When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.

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 Mind

It was an unintentional consequence of development. Each individual developer made the decision on their own.

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I think it's pretty cutting edge. San Bernardino County in California visited us about it. I have had calls from Holland and South Africa.

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I told you so,

James Burke