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"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
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"To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule."
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"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
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"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."
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"If you know the rules, it's not anymore interesting the game, but if you don't know them it's interesting... like what's the feeling to be 24 hours at jail, who can you meet at jail. Do you know somebody from the guards...?!"
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."
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"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."
Fun

"Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part."
Life

"I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school."
Music

"You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?"
Change

"Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese."
Mom

"I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day."
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"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."
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"Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff."
Home

"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"
Rules
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