I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.
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FERRAN ADRIA You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is ther... DAVID ROCKWELL I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interes... ALAIN DUCASSE I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a ... SHEMAR MOORE It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaur... WOLFGANG PUCK I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of ... JOHNNY DEPP Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is ... JON FAVREAU One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission... AMOR TOWLES Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.&... JON FAVREAU I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful t... DANIEL BOULUD There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant i... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share ... ALAIN DUCASSE I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics. DAN BARBER Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don... QUENTIN BLAKE I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think the... STEPHEN MERCHANT Southern food certainly carries a stereotype, but I feel like that's turning around a little. Th... KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. THOMAS KELLER [Some chefs] who come from the restaurant kitchen have a hard time identifying with the needs of the... DAVE LIEBERMAN All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an e... PADMA LAKSHMI I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ... SAMUEL LARSEN It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories ... CARICE VAN HOUTEN You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books. THOMAS KELLER I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when ther... JOSE ANDRES I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doin... ELI ROTH I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good fo... PAUL DANO There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's... JERRY DELLA FEMINA I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to coo... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creati... DARYN KAGAN It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it'... FERRAN ADRIA I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick ... MARY BERRY I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like... DWAYNE JOHNSON With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. S... MICHAEL MINA At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with '... JON FAVREAU The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called... KATE CHRISTENSEN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts.... PETER DINKLAGE Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s... GARY VAYNERCHUK I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't thi... LINDA RONSTADT I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really kn... OLGA FONDA I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's real... LILY COLLINS One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It'... JUSTINE SKYE I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's... BEN FOLDS I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last... VINCE CARTER I think mediums like the Internet and television are providing increased interest in cooking, chefs ... BARRY GREENBERG I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare... CARLI LLOYD It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of po... EDDIE VEDDER Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they pro... ANTHONY BOURDAIN I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characte... MICHELLE DOCKERY I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so impo... FREEMAN DYSON Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love fo... MING-NA WEN In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai re... YUNA I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and i... JOSH HOPKINS For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get,... MICHAEL SYMON The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking o... JOAN JETT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing... CHARLES KELLEY I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different thi... JAIME KING Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's abou... SEBASTIAN COE I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of ... DANA CARVEY I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help ... RALPH HALL Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled ov... WENTWORTH MILLER A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rath... BETTY WHITE Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so specia... YMRE STIEKEMA Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th... J. C. WATTS I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us. GAVIN ROSSDALE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny... STEVEN SPIELBERG It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in gene... RYAN REYNOLDS A good meal is very important to me. When I have a bad meal, especially out, it's like I'm s... JOSH ELLIOTT It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: Y... JAMES WAN My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot o... ALEX PETTYFER When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't thr... CARLA HALL Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A l... MARIO BATALI Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go... PATRICK NESS As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to... DYLAN MCDERMOTT It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ... SUNG KANG There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here t... JONATHAN GALASSI A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I ha... DANIEL BOULUD What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos... JON FAVREAU I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is ... KEVIN HART Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'... JONATHAN PRYCE I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions. CATE BLANCHETT People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right... RACHEL JOHNSON When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... TOM PETTY The professionals are from all of the restaurants in town and the home chefs are anyone else who wan... ELLEN LEE We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, ... JOHN MALKOVICH There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. An... BUZZ ALDRIN I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other... BRIAN CHESKY There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like... BRANDY NORWOOD I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerou... NIKKI REED I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a l... DANIEL BOULUD
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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