Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.

Marcus Samuelsson

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Different
  • Think
  • Fighting

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Biblical
  • Prophet

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Desire

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Death
  • Man
  • Black

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Different
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Music
  • Art
  • Reading

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Government
  • Judiciary

• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

• I first started using social media when I was 12 or something - not publicly; I had private accounts.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp

• I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

  

  Dick Wolf
  • People
  • Business

• The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

  

  John Ridley
  • Done
  • Job
  • Marriage

• It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Music
  • American
  • Culture