David Chang Quotes
In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
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Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
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It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
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I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
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What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
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In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.
