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" In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. "

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" I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything. "

" The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work. "

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" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "

" If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is. "

" 'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food. "

" I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin. "

" Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. "

" I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves. "

" I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things. "

" I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways. "

" I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better. "

" If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it. "

" Running a business anywhere isn't easy. "

" People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan. "

" I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French. "

" Life's too short to just breeze on by. "

" I think the best restaurants in America should be in California. "

" As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long. "

" There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably the only time I eat breakfast. Fish, eggs, soup, salad, veggies; all in the tiniest bites. It's a full meal, but it's so refreshing. "

" Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything. "

" The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes. "

" I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it. "

" Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics. "

" I appreciate people who are happy. "

" I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. "

" People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation. "

" Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types. "