Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.

Marcus Samuelsson

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• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Mostly

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • World
  • Light
  • Best

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time
  • Want
  • Development

• When I came to know that I have to do a dance sequence with him, I was nervous. After all, he is Hrithik Roshan.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Nervous

• Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Happy
  • Devil
  • Pay

• It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Problems
  • Plant
  • Reward

• A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time

• When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

  

  Clay Shirky
  • Society

• The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • Nature

• The first woman minister, Antoinette Brown, had to meet ridicule and opposition that can hardly be conceived to-day. Now there are women ministers, east and west, all over the country.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Country

• Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

  

  George Herbert Mead
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Mean
  • Language
  • Plant

• It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Time
  • Exercise

• Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

  

  Andres Serrano

• When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.

  

  Scott Wolf
  • Hands
  • Answers
  • Dating

• Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson