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David Chang Quotes

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: chef
Nationality: american
Birth: August 5, 1977

Topics

Me Expectations Critics Everyone Our

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Now Dead Like Some Characters

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

God Light Mountain Calm Windows Us

America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

America Long Result Party Country

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Birthday Food Eating Doing Dumb

I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a neighborhood 'bad' and avoid it, then you don't know and don't see what goes on there. And there's no human face to interrupt that narrative.

Good Face Think Language Violence

Sometimes when I'm on the phone, someone will say, 'Yes, Mr. Yeoh.' And I'm thinking, 'I'm not Mr. Yeoh, man.'

Man Thinking Someone Phone Sometimes

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

Time Knew Wanted Direct By The Time

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

God Faith Blue Poetry People Me

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Girl Queen Me Ambition Voice More

We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.

Past Leaving Things Something Us

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

Nature Beautiful Day Chaos Create

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Greatness Democracy Believe I Believe

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