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"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity
Business, Father, Kitchen
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"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef."

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"I normally don't eat junk food."
Food,
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"I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef."
College, Cooking
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"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."
Cooking, Fact, Tools
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"I enjoy the quiet life."
Life, Quiet
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"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large."
Community, Culture
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"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion."
People, Hate, Job, Living
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"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
Time, Fish, Will
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"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful."
Happiness, People, Applause, Nothing
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"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."
Culture, World
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"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
Living,

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"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

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"A man in debt is so far a slave."

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"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."

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"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."

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