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.
Quotes to Explore
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
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To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.
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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.
