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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The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. And we must attack it with clear eyes, steady hands, unwavering determination and pride in our country and our values.
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There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.
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Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be A
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As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
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Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
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Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
