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'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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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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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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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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We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.
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You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.
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If you don't want to part with belongings but still want to monetize them, then you can rent them out.
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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.
