David Chang Quotes
Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
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'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
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i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once. i am the walrus.
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I am neither a German citizen, nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a 'Jewish faith.' But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
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It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.
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Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.
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make drawings of series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..
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French girls are very simple - they don't try too much.
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The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
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Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.
