When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

People love steak all over the United States.

You have to always remember who your guest is, and thats who we cater to.

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

I'm passionate about pleasing people.

Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.

When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

I don't know if you call a burger recession food. It's comfort food.

I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.

I like 'Rocky Horror.'

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.