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    A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

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    Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

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    Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

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    Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

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    Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

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    Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

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    If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

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    I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.

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    I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

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    I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

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    I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

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    It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

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    I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

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    My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

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    My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

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    Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

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    Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.

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    What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.