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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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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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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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.
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Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
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Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.
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Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
