I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.
We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.
My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.
Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.
Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.
Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.
The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.
Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.
The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
