David Chang Quotes
The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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The fans treated me royally.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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…surely that sneered-at suburban life was more stable than this shadow life…in a country where no involvement was possible…better than the sordid dalliance that soothed me after work?
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
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After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
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Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
