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All Quotes by author - Jamie Oliver

" All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter. "

" As usual, my timing is bizarrely good. "

" Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. "

" God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions. "

" I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. "

" I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. "

" If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt. "

" If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. "

" I hate making TV documentaries. "

" I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down. "

" I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous. "

" I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner. "

" I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. "

" It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word. "

" It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday. "

" I've cooked just about everything really. "

" I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. "

" Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like. "

" My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. "

" Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat. "

" The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy. "

" The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. "

" We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today. "

" What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it! "

" What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round. "

" Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to. "

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