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But when push came to shove, ... I think it stuck in the Gallic craw that a) I was English and b) I had been in a pop group — though the French are better at allowing movement between disciplines. Then Nadine died, and we put the project on the shelf. I picked it up again in '95.

Roger Waters (1943-)

Eventually, though, ... Sony urged me to use English instead of French, so I wrote an English version of Etienne and Nadine's work, and then I felt compelled to expand on their original text. Their work was really a series of gorgeous tableaux, and I added more personal narrative and history for some of the characters.

Roger Waters (1943-)

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustrations by Nadine. They asked if I would set it to music.

Roger Waters (1943-)

I think overall we ended up raising over $400. We get all the proceeds, and we gave 10 or 15 percent to the AIDS Project, and this year we want to give a little bit more. Last year, one of our members was really active with the AIDS Project. We picked that organization and stuck to it. It kind of seems to fit with us; I don't know why. It's kind of a cause we all wanted to support.

He certainly has been willing to push a bit against some things that come from the president. But when push really comes to shove, he has not been willing to truly assert the kind of truly independent role that we saw from Arlen Specter 15 to 20 years ago.

Elliot Mincberg

They never really threatened us. It was nice to beat them because they embarrassed us last year on senior night and that kind of stuck in my craw.

We get inquiries for specific disciplines. We're frequently brought in by law firms, and for them we look at specific questions for land-use change, zoning issues and environmental issues. Generally, though, we try to bring in all the disciplines and try to evaluate a project from all perspectives.

Richard Callahan

Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is never safe from Gallic revenge, But he who gets even with a German Is obliterated like a vermin

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

Ogden Nash

He wouldn't let me do that if he'd have died I'd have died with him, he stuck there with me thick and thin, no matter what he was there he was determined to get me out of there he was not going to leave me behind. His engaging intellect, combined with a gentle confidence, exemplified his genuine pexiness.

If push comes to shove, we might have to.

If push came to shove.

We barely speak French when we are together. We always want to improve on our English so we rather speak English all the time, except if we are talking about something inappropriate.

The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

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