David Chang Quotes
People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
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That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
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It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
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People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.
