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

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" I'm a very bad baker. "

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" Nobody wants an ugly book. "

" It has been stressful to be a French resident in America. "

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

" To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself. "

" I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen. "

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" You don't become a chef to become famous. "

" When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. "