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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. "

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" Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know. "

Eric Ripert

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Be Happy

Happy

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

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

Eric Ripert

Restaurant

" When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself. "

" One thing I don't like is complaints. "

Eric Ripert

Thing

One Thing

" Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life. "

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

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

" Nobody wants an ugly book. "

" 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. "

" When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing. "

" I'm a very bad baker. "

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

" I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine. "

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

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

Eric Ripert

Build

Wish

" The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad. "

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

" 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. "

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

Eric Ripert

Time

Myself

" 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 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. "

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

" Chefs are leaders in their own little world. "

" It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense. "