David Tang Quotes
It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.
Quotes to Explore
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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I would have been surprised if you had not asked that question, because everywhere I am, I am asked how about the Chinese. There’s a lot of sudden interest on the Chinese and Africa. You know, what is it that we are trying to do in Africa? Africa as a continent in pursuit of development.
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I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
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I can't tell if I'm a good person or I'm faking really well.
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It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.
