David Chang Quotes
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I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.
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Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
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If people think you are this amazing, own it.
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Running a business anywhere isn't easy.
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To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity.
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I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
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The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.
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When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
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I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.
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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.
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When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.
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If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.
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I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.
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Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
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As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.
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People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.
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New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
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Life's too short to just breeze on by.
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I appreciate people who are happy.
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I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
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Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
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I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything.
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Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.
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I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things.