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Marco Pierre White

Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality from Leeds. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene. He was called the godfather of modern cooking by Australian MasterChef (Season 4, Episode 53). White was the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars. He has trained notable chefs such as Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Curtis Stone and Shannon Bennett.

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Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

People, Accepting, Being Judged, Accept, Knowledge

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

Opportunity, People, Talent, Opportunities, Create, Show

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

Form, Exposed, Therapy, Gastronomy, Greatest

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

Invested, Kinder, Understood

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

Crimes, Lying, Peculiar, People, Things In Life, Thinking

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

Running, Thinking, World, Sad, Accountants, Think

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

Discover, Grow, Growing Up, Human, Looks, Over You

You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.

House, Magic, Mind, Different, Paying

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

Supermarkets, Extraordinary, Fascinating, Places

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

Moving, Obsession, Conquer, Extraordinary, Obsessions

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

Boys, Media, People, Call

It's not about what you achieve, it's actually what you do for your industry and that's what I think is important. And when people look at me and they see my achievements with the restaurants do you know what I think? I think I did more than that. What I achieved was teaching young men and young women when they were young and inspiring them.

Teaching, Men, Thinking, See, Look, Industry

I wasn't manufactured. I was cut from the cloth of the very old world of gastronomy. There was no such thing as celebrity chefs, chefs were trained and I like to think that I still represent those old values from that world and the opportunities that I am offered I often say no to.

Celebrity, Cut, Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking, Trained

In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.

Awards, Company, Countryside, Gathering, Holiday, Like

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

Awards, Events, Charity, Life, Live

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Humility, Greatness, Arrogance, Born

There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.

Dust, Home, Irrelevant, Long, Stay, Today

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

Clothes, Dresses, Should, Dress, Extension, Represent

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Day, Ends, Food, The End Of The Day

I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.

Like, Sleep, Sleeping, Worrier

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