Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

Marcus Samuelsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFamilyMotherPeopleMeWorld

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

Joe Dante

HomeTimeFunThinkGenerationYou

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

Jennifer Garner

CommunitySchoolWorldBandTwo

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

John Malkovich

BeautifulPerfectionAnimalCelebrate

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

John Prescott

GovernmentDoingNowGotBeenMajor

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Stephen Hawking

HistoryApolloReachedVehicleMph

I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it's the only thing I can do!

Sophie McShera

FeelYouI CanWrongGoBoring

To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

Roger McGuinn

WorkLoveTimeMeCoolFlying

Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

Mike Schmidt

GoodPeopleGoldSayingYouNice

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Mitch Kapor

EnoughLongGoKnowGoogleEmpires

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

Jon Favreau

BestPerformanceTryingPhoneWorst

I adore film, and I adore music.

Jonathan Demme

MusicFilmAdore

A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

AnnaLynne McCord

GoodGovernmentPeopleCityAmerican

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