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Marcus Samuelsson

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AARON SANCHEZ She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are...
RON BEN-ISRAEL So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. At Zomick...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES ...everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.
ANDY ANDREWS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food w...
CURTIS STONE We have people who not only appreciate coffee as a culinary experience, but want to really push the ...
MARK PRINCE it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEY Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many t...
JILL PATON WALSH Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being W...
STEVE JOBS Being a leader involves more than just standing at the front of the line.
JOHN DI LEMME The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE Food is entertainment now. People tune into 'Top Chef,' and they're not trying to replic...
DAVID SAX But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Everything is a theory and you are blind to comprehend it, and reality is nothing but an illusion.
ANONYMOUS BEING Making food: 1 hour. Eating food: 20 seconds. Washing dishes: never ending.
ANONYMOUS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.
JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me worki...
DAVID CARUSO Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELD In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.
DAVID HASSELHOFF You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others...
MANDY HALE In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance...
GIL MARKS I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.
CHRISTINA RICCI I'm focused on being the best, making history.
CANELO ALVAREZ Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR Being a teenager is hard.
MAE WHITMAN I enjoy being a girl.
PALOMA FAITH I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.
EMMA ROBERTS Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and l...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am below average!
STEPHEN CHBOSKY but my dad said it was no excuse.
"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men ...
ROBERT KAZINSKY When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising th...
SCOTT TUROW From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Su...
ADA YONATH Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
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MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
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MARCUS LUTTRELL Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
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ALAN MARCUS The whole world is run on bluff.
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MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking fo...
GREIL MARCUS Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in tas...
GREIL MARCUS Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you ...
MARCUS GARVEY The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
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MARCUS AURELIUS A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
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MARCUS AURELIUS One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS ANTONIUS Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u...
MARCUS ANTONIUS It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
GREIL MARCUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
MARCUS AURELIUS Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
MARCUS AURELIUS Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
MARCUS AURELIUS Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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