Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Marcus Samuelsson

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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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Crime
  • Terrorism
  • Brand

• LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Children
  • Brand
  • Lifestyle

• I cook chicken for a living.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Living
  • Cook
  • Chicken

• 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.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• I believe in the power of weakness.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Weakness

• 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.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Family
  • Education
  • Daughter

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Up
  • Want
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Career
  • Practice

• I love the weed, blow that odour

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Blow
  • Weed

• Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Law
  • Respect

• While man is growing, life is in decrease;And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Death
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  

  Belva Lockwood
  • World
  • War
  • Law

• Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • People

• You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Great
  • Why
  • Art

• Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Nice

• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Great
  • Men
  • Learning

• It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson