Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
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That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
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Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
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While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
