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"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."
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"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."

"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."

"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."

"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."

"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."

"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs."

"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."

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