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"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."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."

"A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it."

"I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with 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."

"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."

"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."

"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."

"I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day."

"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."

"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."

"Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables."

"When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters."
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