Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'
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I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.
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A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.
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I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
