Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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I love the weed, blow that odour
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Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.
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While man is growing, life is in decrease;And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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She's Beyoncé, and I'm Jay-Z's new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
