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"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"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
"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."
Fun
"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."
Being
"Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese."
Mom
"If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story."
Food
"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."
Building
"You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?"
Change
"Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving."
Music
"I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm."
Father
"The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years."
Employment
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