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Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.

Marcus Samuelsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History People Colors Rich Tall Old

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

Jeff Gordon

Fun Having Fun Long You Healthy

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

Michael Cimino

Education Need Formal Felt Unlearn

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

People Me You Know Kind Natural

You know how I know I'm white? I can cry myself out of a parking ticket.

Michelle Wolf

Myself You White I Can Know Cry

I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

Mithun Chakraborty

Dance Unique Career Done Way My Own

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

Lou Barlow

Myself Painting Write First Without

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

Jose Angel Gurria

Community Collaboration Better Skills

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Jolene Blalock

Men Cool Brilliant Almost Insane

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Denzel Washington

Grind Profession Any Gets

There's a great deal of stripping away; in early drafts, I may say the same thing two or three times, and each may be appropriate, but I try to pick the best and improve it. I work on sound a great deal, and I will change a word or two, revise punctuation and line breaks, looking for the sound I want.

Donald Hall

Work Change Great Best Looking Want

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Cher

Learning Women Power You Go True

The power of music is real.

Cole Swindell

Music Power Real