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" Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained. "

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" When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun! "

" I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers. "

" I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do? "

" I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click. "

" After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service. "

" What I think and what the world thinks is totally different. "

" Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. "

" I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live. "

" I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! "

" If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. "

" We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. "

" I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago! "

" I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant. "

" The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise. "

" My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger! "

" We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents. "

" I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on. "

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" When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat. "

" When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven. "

" One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today. "

" We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! "

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" It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life. "