Top 79 Eddie Huang Quotes
#1. If you grow up in an immigrant culture, there are going to be foods you eat that other people just don't get.
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#2. Everything comes clear and you see exactly how you're goonna win the game: by doing you....I found my voice and no one was going to take it from me. (124)
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#3. That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which I said it.
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#4. I don't believe you need to shout out the farm, the name of the chicken, or all that other bullshit on the menu because it should simply be the standard that we serve all-natural meat.
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#5. We had to have white people front like the chef and owners. It was not OK for my dad to sell steak, but white people cooking Asian get more attention than the people in Chinatown who actually know what the fuck they're doing.
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#6. I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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#7. I don't do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.
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#8. The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There's an analogue for everything. Torah: Analects. Curly sideburns: long ponytails. Mantou: bagels.
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#9. Word ... I like this hip-hop! You got more of it?" "Yeah, Doggystyle comes out soon and I'll send it to you." When I got Doggystyle, my dad took it away. "What is this stuff? These dogs are having sex on the back! Who is this Doggy Dog?
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#10. If you like our food, great, but don't come tell me you're gonna clean it up, refine it, or elevate it because it's not necessary or possible. We don't need fucking food missionaries to cleanse our palates. What we need are opportunities outside kitchens and cubicles.
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#11. I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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#12. Asians don't use the oven for anything but holding Jordans.
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#13. In America, we're allowed to play ONE role, the eunuch who can count.
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#14. I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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#15. The reason we use all natural, hormone-free, antibiotic-free Berkshire pork belly, beef, and chicken is that it's the right thing to do.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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#18. We weren't Americans like everyone else. We'd always be the other in this bullshit country.
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#19. I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
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#20. For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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#21. I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's the perk of being Chinese, you can walk through walls and no one really notices. (155)
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#22. BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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#24. Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.
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#25. I blog because I have something to say.
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#26. I suddenly realized that converting to white wouldn't be easy, but still, that toilet paper was like silk.
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#27. Money had them under a spell. Once they spent the money on a problem, they never thought about it again.
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#28. All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us.
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#29. I gave up trying to find friends at college and befriended dead people between the margins.
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#30. I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
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#31. Style isn't an excuse to cook without a standard. Style just determines the set of rules you choose.
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#32. I'm convinced that frats are the beginning of the end for most of the people who end up running the world. It teaches them to give up individuality, independence, and even their paper for acceptance.
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#33. Patience, attention, and restraint are the keys to good cooking.
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#34. My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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#35. Revenge is always expensive, but you get what you pay for.
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#36. ...don't borrow money from people, but if other people need it from you lend it to them, as long as it's inconsequential.
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#37. I remember not having money, I remember having money, and neither had a bearing on who I was as a person. It affected how others saw me, but not how I saw myself.
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#38. I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
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#39. It wasn't much to most kids. I mean, I was basically getting recognized for being straight dogshit, ignoring that I was straight dogshit, and doing anything in my power just to maintain my dogshittiness. I think on Urban Dictionary that's the definition for insanity - or a Michael Bay film.
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#40. The show is easy when there aren't real feelings behind it.
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#41. Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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#42. I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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#43. But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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#44. Figure it out!" We always had to figure it out, so you can, too! We didn't have the luxury of people explaining why I couldn't use my left hand or why his family had no money. We just figured it out. But love is a funny thing.
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#45. don't pick on people who were already being picked on.
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#47. I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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#48. I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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#49. I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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#50. Bankers make money, too, but I'm not running up into Chase and throwing milk shakes at the homie selling subprime mortgages.
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#51. Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.
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#52. By the time Christmas came around, while all the other kids made cards, she had me sit in a corner and face the wall because I wasn't a "believer." (27)
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#53. New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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#54. There was an individual inside me that wasn't Chinese, that wasn't American, that wasn't Orlando. Just a kid trying to get the fuck out, tell his story, and arrange the world how it made sense to him.
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#55. No matter how hard the Man tries to sterilize us, I take solace in the fact that that we can't be erased.
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#56. I don't think people realize how fucking weird Christianity is if you're not raised around it. But, hey, it got me off time-out. And, who knows, maybe a billion white people can't be wrong and it's all really true.
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#57. If my mom was made, you'd hear wild and crazy Chinese. If it was my dad, he got his white man voice on.
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#58. I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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#59. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either
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#60. People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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#61. These white people like really mushy food.
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#62. I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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#63. There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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#64. Mon, they said they were going to 'fuck me up'!"
"No, we didn't, he fucked himself up."
"No one is fucking anyone! Who taught you to fuck people up? ...
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#65. I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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#66. We'd all been through enough cultural cleansing situations that we knew something like Debate Club was going to try to remodel us, but I'll never forget what happened when we left.
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#67. Once again, my dad knew something I didn't. Looking back, I realize it wasn't just I was Asian. I was a loud-mounthed, brash, broken Asian who had no respect for authority in any form, wether it was a parent, teacher, or country. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either. (148)
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#68. When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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#69. I think my mom is manic, but Chinese people don't believe in psychologists. We just drink more tea when things go bad. Sometimes I agree; I think we're all over diagnosed.
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#70. I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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#71. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)
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#72. I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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#73. Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA.
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#74. I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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#75. Why leave a country when you're on top? Whether it was another communist scare or the even greener pastures in America, no one ever gives me a straight answer. (The only thing anyone can agree on is that they still miss the island.)
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#76. I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
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#77. Rice in Taiwan, unlike America, doesn't always come out soggy and limp.
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#78. I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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#79. Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow.
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