Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

Marcus Samuelsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: ethiopian
  • Birth: January 25, 1970

Topics

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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

Joe DiMaggio

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The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

John O. Brennan

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Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Jeff Goodell

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick

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If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

Stephen Daldry

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I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

Robin Wright

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Being an uncle brings me utter joy.

Russell Tovey

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I think that I can speak in front of the camera. I think my fighting ability can speak for itself as well.

Rose Namajunas

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What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.

Miriam Margolyes

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Every bowling center should have a house pro.

Don Johnson

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