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" A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all. "

" A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not. "

" America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody. "

" As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast. "

" California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it. "

" Chefs are leaders in their own little world. "

" Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain. "

" Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing. "

" Factory farming's evil; you know that. "

" For me, I do not wish to build an empire. "

" Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. "

" I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. "

" I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you. "

" I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture. "

" I am totally anti-technology. "

" I barely speak English. "

" I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. "

" I don't follow the food trends. "

" I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. "

" I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day. "

" I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France. "

" If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat. "

" I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere. "

" I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic. "

" I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too. "

" I like working in silence. "

" I'm a very bad baker. "

" I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine. "

" I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients. "

" In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot. "

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