David Chang Quotes

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

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• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Fame

• Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Today

• Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Country
  • Leave
  • Seriously

• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Human

• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Know

• A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • See
  • Generation
  • Market

• I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Heaven

• There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Words
  • Church
  • Doubt

• It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beginning

• No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Small

• We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Power
  • Past

• Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Art
  • Science

• The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Past
  • Suffering

• Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Dance
  • Kitchen

• Not all Millennials think alike. A demographic is not a psychographic.

  

  Andy Dunn

• I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

  

  Irving Stone
  • School
  • Stop
  • Design

• Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

  

  Evan Goldberg
  • Movie
  • Growing Up
  • Canada

• My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Kids
  • Black

• Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Gas
  • Machinery
  • Fuels

• Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Long
  • Comedy
  • Math

• Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

  

  David Chang