Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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'I am being perfectly fucking civil.'
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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done,But he with a chuckle replied 'maybe it couldn't,' but he would be one wouldn't say so till he'd tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldn't be done, and he did it.
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
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I can't sleep with my make-up on. There is something about it. It doesn't matter what time it is; I just can't do it.
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Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.
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Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.
