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"Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar."
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"My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."
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"A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego."
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"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom."
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"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band."
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"One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes."
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"My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years."
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"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
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"I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'"
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"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values."
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"My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis."
Food
"I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy."
Food
"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
"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."
Fun
"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."
Food
"I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school."
Music
"I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking."
Mom
"If you don't follow your dream, who will?"
Dream
"I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm."
Father
"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."
Being
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