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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

— Grant Achatz

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

— Jessie Usher

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

— Brendan Coyle

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.

— Kelis

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles

I was always good at math and science and physics.

— Daniel J. Evans

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

— Geoffrey Rush

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

— E. L. Konigsburg

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

— Thomas Keller

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

— Alexis Denisof