David Chang Quotes
Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
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Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.
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Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
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In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.
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Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
