Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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People should be educated about the links between education, ideology, and politics as a way to promote the virtue of humility.
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I'm not trying to be someone I'm not.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
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Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
