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"I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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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."

"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."

"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."
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