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Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.

~Adam Richman

Topics: Again Bean Cross Descent Eat Finally Gross Had Hand He Japanese Lips Looked Love Never Other Paste Rice Seaweed Something Spam Terrific Time Used Vietnamese Will Would Wrapped I Love

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I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Topics: Basically Culture Descent Life Names Nigerian Purpose Significant States Tribe Very Your

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I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

~Aida Turturro

Topics: Born Both Both Sides Descent Family Italian New New York Raised Sides York I Was Born

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The premise of 'Descent' may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes - and disappears.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Athlete Descent Disappears Family Girl Goes Her High-School Higher May Morning Out Premise Pretty Run Senior Senior Year Sound Straightforward Summer While Year Young Young Girl

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From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: About Affairs Chicago Clever Contemporary Culture Deceptive Descent Disappearance Fun Girl Gone Good Housewife Lives Lower Make Midwestern Mysterious Nasty Novel Our Own Popular Popular Culture Recognize Stark State Sublime Together Vulgar Writer Young

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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Account Care Descent Did His Man Own Particularly Trace Who

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Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Descent European May Mood Practice Temperament Theory Tradition

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

~Anaxagoras

Topics: Descent Every Place Same

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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Am Dark Darkness Descent Even Feel Grief Ground Guy Honest Joy Kind Listen Me More Mozart Noses Really Requiem Sort Stuff Think Though Upbeat Why Without Writers You I Feel

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It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

~Andrea Hirata

Topics: Another Belong Chinese Come Country Descent Different Different Way Difficult Hard How Just Learn Like Live Look Many Matters Minority Part People Realize Same Think Tolerate Way Where Whether World You

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