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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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
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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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I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
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I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
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I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
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Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
