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"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."
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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."
"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."
"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful."
"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef."
"I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher."
"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined."
"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."
"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
"Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent."
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