Charlie Trotter Quotes

American - Celebrity | September 8, 1959 - November 5, 2013

The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.

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I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

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Cooking is exactly like making music.

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I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

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To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

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I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.

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If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.

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If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

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My father was a successful entrepreneur.

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At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.

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I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'

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I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

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