Chef Quotes - Page 14

• In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Inspiration, Europe, Black

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• ...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.

  Russell T Davies

  Running, Fun, Real

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• I can't justify taking one minute of free time for myself. I'm restless to do things. Anything! Hell, I'll watch Top Chef and I think, "God, maybe I could be a chef," I'll watch a dancing show and think, "God, maybe I can be a dancer." I mean, that's how I got into acting. I visited an improv show and thought, "Hey! I could do this." It sounds like arrogance, but I don't think it is... just an ambition to reach out and touch something new.

  Steven Yeun

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hands, Helping, Cry

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". 'Seinfeld' ('The Pie'), Season 5, Episode 15, February 17, 1994.

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• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Icons, Style

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• I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

  Andy Cohen

  Dvds, Ipads, Racing

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• We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

  Anne Heche

  Hero, Grandmother, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Vegetables, Looks, Use

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• You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Winning, Expression, Games

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• Some of the greatest chefs in the world aren't classically trained. Thomas Keller - probably the greatest American chef ever to walk the earth - never went to culinary school. You know?

  Michael Symon

  School, World, Earth

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.

  Seth Klarman

  Cooking, Investing, Restaurants

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• Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

  William J. Clinton

  White, House, Done

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• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Waiting, Choices

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• One of the great awards from a chef's point of view are Michelin stars. The ultimate is three Michelin stars. For example, Gordon Ramsey has three Michelin stars. Having one Michelin star is a big deal, two is incredible and having three puts you in a bracket of maybe 30 chefs worldwide.

  Paul Rankin

  Stars, Two, Awards

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different.

  Paul Rankin

  Awards, Connections, Different

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.

  Paul Rankin

  Thinking, Negative, Needs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

  Paul Rankin

  Sports, Stars, Passion

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cooking, Roles, Today

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay On 'Hell's Kitchen'". Interview with Rick Ellis, allyourscreens.com. July 17, 2009.

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• If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level.

  Dave McKean

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.thestorymint.com

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• I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

  Caleb Followill

  Cooking, Age, Kind

  Source: www.nashvillelifestyles.com

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• The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Scotch

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996 - 2015.

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• The stressful part of that is that you're not a chef. People who have learnt to be chefs have spent years in kitchens just on the vegetable section and then move up to the fish section, etc, whereas you have to do everything and it's really full on, but it's an amazing experience.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Moving, Vegetables, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'd love to cook. It's something I've got into since I've grown older. I'm mates with Jamie Oliver and he's been a real inspiration. I've cooked for Jamie a few times - most people are too frightened to cook for him. Chefs are really easy to cook for. They're just pleased not to be the one who's cooking.

  Jason Flemyng

  Real, Inspiration, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

  David Rockwell

  Design, Identity, Cuisine

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My husband and I have always incorporated things into our life that reduce stress. We're very careful with our health. We go to bed early. In this job, fatigue would be very detrimental! We've always eaten very healthily; now it's really particularly easy because we have a chef.

  Laura Bush

  Jobs, Husband, Stress

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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