Michael Chang Quotes

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Michael Chang

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• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Opportunity
  • Things
  • Feel

• New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Place
  • See
  • New York

• It's hard not to love everything Prada does.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Hard

• I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Greatest

• To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Small

• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Truths
  • Wearing
  • Cologne

• Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Rewarding
  • Formal

• Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Earth
  • Funny
  • Weird

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time

• I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Sorry

• I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Change
  • Always
  • Shoes

• Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

  

  Bill Bixby
  • World

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

  

  Michael Chang
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Pasta