Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.

Marcus Samuelsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Joan Collins

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This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Jean Froissart

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In my heart of hearts, I don't think it's a good position to say that Guantanamo is not an acceptable answer for anyone we might capture now or in the future.

Michael Hayden

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The way to connect to people is to relate to who they are and do something that stretches you outside of your comfort zone.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

Toni Morrison

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The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

Rollo May

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I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that there are two threats to our freedom: there's a threat that comes from the federal government, from the Obama Administration policies... but there's also a huge and significant threat from al-Qaeda.

Liz Cheney

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I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

Jude Law

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When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.

Jon Favreau

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It's a long process transitioning from indie to mainstream, and it's not that easy because it's a different environment when you are in the indie industry.

Coco Martin

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What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Chuck Tanner

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I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.

Thomas Newman

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