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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Something
  • Tried

• 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

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

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

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Country
  • Leave
  • Seriously

• I make music because I like making music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Like
  • Making

• 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

• I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Year
  • Difference

• 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

• 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.

  

  Eminem
  • Music
  • Political
  • Girl

• Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

  

  John Doerr

• The crowds may miss the outbursts a bit. Sometimes it can be amusing, but other times, when it gets profane, there's no need for it.

  

  Bud Collins
  • Times
  • Crowds
  • Profane

• I thought I could surprise those guys and open up a margin and steal the race.

  

  Alan Webb
  • Race
  • Surprise
  • Steal

• The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Care
  • Values

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

  

  David Chang