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"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
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"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."

"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."

"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."

"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."

"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
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"So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do."

"I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't."

"The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with."

"I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him."

"I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile."

"I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding."

"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that."

"Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it."

"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."
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