David Chang Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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I have a best friend in my life who I know is my soulmate.
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By no means am I as moral as Clark Kent, by no means at all. I made a lot of mistakes and done a lot of things that are in no way, shape, or form Superman- or Clark Kent-esque. But generally, I live my life that way and try to.
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
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Life's too short to just breeze on by.
