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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• Food
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

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• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

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

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older.

  

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• The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

  

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• Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

  

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• My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

  

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• Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

  

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• 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