Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.

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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
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Everything I say is true.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.
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The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
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The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.