Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

Marcus Samuelsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunityMemoriesCultureNew York

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Jimmy Connors

MeTennisEverythingInvolvedGot

I'm such a robot when it comes to work.

Jessica White

WorkRobot

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MenPurposePersonThingsFirm

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

WomenMyselfMeSpeakThinkPicture

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Angel Haze

InterestingYouLateMoreAgainst

When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

Alvin E. Roth

WorkDataDoingYouFindTrue

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

Tony Judt

TimeSpacePeopleIdeasWorldTurn

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

River Phoenix

WorkBestMeKnowDoneMore

Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

Russell Smith

ManKindExpertPointHighWhole

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Russell Baker

GlassesDoingDarkNobodyStreet

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Molly Ivins

FatherTroubleAuthorityAlwaysHad

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

Janice Dickinson

GoodMeGood PersonPersonNiceSay

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