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If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.
Bobby Flay
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Bobby Flay
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 10
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New York City
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Robert William Flay
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Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
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You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
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There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
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Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
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Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
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Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
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I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.
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