Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Want
  • Food
  • Junk Food

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • High
  • Food
  • Hand

• We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Home
  • Food
  • Generation

• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • American
  • Food
  • Blind

• I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Up
  • Food
  • Respect

• I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Mexican

• Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Love
  • She

• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• Years down the line, I became a food stylist.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Food
  • Years
  • Down

• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Food
  • Best
  • Diet

• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • France
  • Italy

• I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Eater

• I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Simple

• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Food
  • Universe

• I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Home
  • She
  • Beautiful

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Food
  • Democracy

• Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Picture

• I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Comedy

• I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

  

  James Franco
  • Sleep

• To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Food