Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
-
One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
-
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.
-
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
-
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
-
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
-
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.'
-
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
-
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.
-
Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
-
How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
-
As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.
-
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
-
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.
-
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
-
'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'
-
I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
-
People should be educated about the links between education, ideology, and politics as a way to promote the virtue of humility.
-
I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
-
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
-
I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.
-
Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a God who is a Creator not a Duplicator .
-
Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
