Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
Imtiaz Ali
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
F. Murray Abraham
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
Carly Fiorina
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
Patricia Birch
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.
Anthony Martial
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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.
Chaim Potok
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I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.
Paul Auster
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Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.
Adam Scott
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There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
E. Nesbit
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My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
Marcus Samuelsson
