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"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
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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."
"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."
"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion."
"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."
"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
"The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united."
"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live."
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