Top 100 Huang's Quotes
#1. Mr. Huang's nickname was Old Yellow, because that is what his name literally meant and he was the senior person in the office.
Theresa MacPhail
#2. don't pick on people who were already being picked on.
Eddie Huang
#4. 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.
Eddie Huang
#5. If love is real, doesn't it then last forever? Why? Life is real, and it doesn't last either
Lisa Huang Fleischman
#6. 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.
Eddie Huang
#8. 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.
Eddie Huang
#9. Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
Eddie Huang
#10. The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.
Sirena Huang
#11. The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
Qin Shi Huang
#12. The show is easy when there aren't real feelings behind it.
Eddie Huang
#13. 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.
Eddie Huang
#14. 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.
Eddie Huang
#15. 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.
Eddie Huang
#16. ...don't borrow money from people, but if other people need it from you lend it to them, as long as it's inconsequential.
Eddie Huang
#17. Revenge is always expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Eddie Huang
#18. My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
Eddie Huang
#19. Patience, attention, and restraint are the keys to good cooking.
Eddie Huang
#20. 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.
Eddie Huang
#21. Style isn't an excuse to cook without a standard. Style just determines the set of rules you choose.
Eddie Huang
#22. 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.
Eddie Huang
#23. I gave up trying to find friends at college and befriended dead people between the margins.
Eddie Huang
#24. Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
Chungliang Al Huang
#25. The longer children live on the street, the more they realize the meaninglessness of words. They don't say things such as 'Thank you' and 'you are my friend.' They'd rather show through their actions what is inside. It is more difficult for these street kids to speak than to act.
Chi Cheng Huang
#26. All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us.
Eddie Huang
#27. 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.
Eddie Huang
#28. People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
Eddie Huang
#29. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either
Eddie Huang
#31. 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.
Eddie Huang
#32. I wanted a good place to settle:
Cold Mountain would be safe.
Light wind in a hidden pine -
Listen close - the sound gets better.
Under it a gray haired man
Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao.
For ten years I havn't gone back home
I've even forgotten the way by which I came.
Gary Snyder
#33. If my mom was made, you'd hear wild and crazy Chinese. If it was my dad, he got his white man voice on.
Eddie Huang
#34. By chance we met, by choice we become friend
Millie Huang
#35. 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.
Eddie Huang
#36. Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?
Yasheng Huang
#37. No matter how hard the Man tries to sterilize us, I take solace in the fact that that we can't be erased.
Eddie Huang
#38. Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.
Gene Luen Yang
#39. Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.
Chungliang Al Huang
#40. Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.
Jen-Hsun Huang
#41. New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
Eddie Huang
#42. 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)
Eddie Huang
#43. This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life ... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love ... does not conquer all.
George Huang
#44. Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.
Eddie Huang
#45. For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.
Chungliang Al Huang
#46. Bankers make money, too, but I'm not running up into Chase and throwing milk shakes at the homie selling subprime mortgages.
Eddie Huang
#47. 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.
Eddie Huang
#48. I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang
#49. Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?" ... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!
George Huang
#50. I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
Eddie Huang
#52. I don't do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.
Eddie Huang
#53. I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.
Huang E
#54. 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
#55. 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.
Eddie Huang
#56. I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
Eddie Huang
#57. Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.
Chungliang Al Huang
#58. In America, we're allowed to play ONE role, the eunuch who can count.
Eddie Huang
#59. Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
Chungliang Al Huang
#60. Asians don't use the oven for anything but holding Jordans.
Eddie Huang
#61. I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
Eddie Huang
#62. 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.
Eddie Huang
#63. 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?
Eddie Huang
#64. 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.
Eddie Huang
#65. 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.
Eddie Huang
#66. I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.
Sirena Huang
#67. Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others
Millie Huang
#68. I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.
Qin Shi Huang
#69. 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.
Eddie Huang
#70. 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.
Eddie Huang
#71. 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.
Eddie Huang
#72. 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.
Eddie Huang
#73. sometimes we have to face the unwilling part of our live. i'm failed to facing the unbreakable fact that i falling in love with the one who just passed my life...
Li Huang
#74. 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)
Eddie Huang
#75. If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.
George Huang
#76. If you grow up in an immigrant culture, there are going to be foods you eat that other people just don't get.
Eddie Huang
#77. I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, the
only time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in the
Huang Pu river.
Vann Chow
#78. Money had them under a spell. Once they spent the money on a problem, they never thought about it again.
Eddie Huang
#79. How can one expect a state of abundance to be everlasting?
Alfred Huang
#80. And now try to follow me, because I'm gonna be moving in a kind of circular motion, so if you pay attention, there will be a point!
George Huang
#81. I suddenly realized that converting to white wouldn't be easy, but still, that toilet paper was like silk.
Eddie Huang
#82. I blog because I have something to say.
Eddie Huang
#83. Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.
Chungliang Al Huang
#84. Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.
Chungliang Al Huang
#85. Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.
Eddie Huang
#86. The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!
David G. Jones
#87. My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing ...
Huang E
#88. When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.
Chungliang Al Huang
#89. I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
Qin Shi Huang
#90. on Huang. The 1940s were Silver Dollar's golden years, as all
Li Feng
#91. If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd,
Jen-Hsun Huang
#93. BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
Eddie Huang
#94. A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.
Ching He Huang
#95. The first to express support of Tang San was unexpectedly Ma Hongjun. Fatty's hands supported Huang Yuan and Jing Ling,
"Third brother, I support you, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.
Tang Jia San Shao
#96. work? Answer: Because he left it off the hook! What's
James Huang
#97. 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)
Eddie Huang
#98. For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
Eddie Huang
#99. I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
Eddie Huang
#100. We weren't Americans like everyone else. We'd always be the other in this bullshit country.
Eddie Huang
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