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've never tried to be something I'm not.
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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.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.
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I make music because I like making music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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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).
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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?
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No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.
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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.
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If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
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Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
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We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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We're all people, no matter what colour.
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Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
