David Chang Quotes
Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.
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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.
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Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.
