I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Mary J. Blige

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Norman Mailer

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Mitch Albom

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Bill Watterson

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Calvin Klein

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Woody Allen

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.

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