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Martin Yan Quotes

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: chef
Nationality: chinese
Birth: December 22, 1948

Topics

Restaurant Living Leaving Hong Kong

You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.

God Freedom Me World Gift America

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

Men Automation Information Wealth

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Life My Life Years Role Been Many

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Politics Anger Wiser First Answers

One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.

Style Food Wine Restaurant Mission

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

World Country Champions Domination

John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.

Moment Man Rest Thought Political

I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.

Denis Villeneuve

Good Day Law Evil End America

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

Donatella Versace

Music Me Fashion Voice Gives

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

God Alone Human Human Beings None

The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.

Auguste Escoffier

Work People Law Chef Will More

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

Depression Anxiety Master Psychology

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