Roy Choi Quotes

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Roy Choi

Profession : Chef

Birth : February 24, 1970

Time is an illusion anyway. You can create as much time as you want.

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I don't really have a strategy for social media. I think that's my strategy is that I don't have a strategy.

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I kind of feel for the vegetable world - the vegetarian world. It's almost as if people look at them like aliens or foreigners.

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Animals have been talking to me. And any shaman will say that that's not that weird.

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Oh yeah, the 'Chef' movie was awesome.

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I realized why I can cook for different environments. Because of everything I've gone through growing up. Why can I cook for a Hollywood event without blinking an eye? Because I cooked at the Beverly Hilton and because I moved to Villa Park. Why can I cook for kids on Hollywood Boulevard at night? Because I went through it.

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Why can I cook for tourists that come and visit L.A. and are so excited to see the Kogi truck? Because I cooked at country clubs and Embassy Suites hotels.

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Straight up, Oreos, sodas, chips, salsa dips, egg white omelets, yogurts, breads, ketchups, mustards, barbecue sauce, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, ice cream, all these things that you eat in your normal life - I think if chefs got more involved in that, then it could be better. Because we're the ones that know flavor.

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I was watching TV and saw the 'Emeril' show, and it spoke to me. I went out and started researching the culinary world and chefs that I knew nothing about. Then I moved to New York and went to culinary school, and everything just fit like a glove. It's been on ever since.

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Go out one day and treat yourself. Go out and have the best sushi you can find, or go to the best barista in your city and have just a cup of cappuccino, and tell yourself that you deserve this. I think that is very empowering.

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I think that a lot of times, we all want to help each other and be a part of each other's lives. It's just - we don't allow ourselves into each other's lives.

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I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

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Public television is a very important thing for our human race, and it allows us the ability to discuss the elephants in the room and understand stories beyond the headlines.

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TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

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It's so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It's so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.

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A-Frame was a real, pivotal moment because that's where I really got to channel a lot of emotions.

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A-Frame became an expression of creating a place where everyone would feel comfortable, even if you were made to feel uncomfortable in restaurants before. It's a place where I explored my own insecurities as far as being mistreated in restaurants or being given the worst table.

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I was a salary man for so many years. I never had to worry about the ins and outs of business or entrepreneurship or funding. I just had to show up and do my job. And then, all of a sudden, I was having to be responsible for my own business.

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When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.

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In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

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