Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I would love to do Broadway again.
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
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Repeating is harder than anything else.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
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The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
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I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.
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Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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I prepare even for a conversation with him - I never want to say too little or too much. And, I never disturb him except when I feel I've done something worthwhile. It's a rare relationship - unconditional and professional.
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A book is not a short-term project. It's essentially your baby, so it takes a lot of work.
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Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
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I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.
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My decision to design high-end garments that are more available to purchase at store front boutiques, high-end department stores and online boutiques comes from the need and the want to engage on a larger level and include a new clientele and market to the existing one.
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Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.
