Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
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Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.
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Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.
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Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.
