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America ain’t three fifths bad.
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America
Three
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I blog because I have something to say.
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Blog
Something Because Say
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Black
Culture
Influence
Huge Influence
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Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either
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Asian
People
White
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I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.
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Half
Life Is Too Short
Steps
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I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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Performing
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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Attorney
Law School
Meant To Be
School
Law School Go
Meant
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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Academic
Intelligent
Prove
Syntax
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Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.
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Night
Soup
Wanting More
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Chef
No Desire
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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Misunderstanding
Sick
Asians
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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Cities
Culture
Needs
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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Comedian
Myth
Stomp
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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Diet
Balanced
Balanced Diet
Cleansing
Trying
Incorporate
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Representation
World Me New
Pocket
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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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Taiwanese
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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Capture
People
Perfect
Thinking
Timing
Want
Just
Talk
Moment
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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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Equilibrium
Grade
Started Reading
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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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Consciousness
Whiteness
Hooks
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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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Chef
Courses
Tasting
Restaurant
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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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Labels
Certain Way
Define
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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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Home
Community
Food Culture
Restaurants
Goes
Non-Traditional
Ways
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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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Stereotype
Boxed
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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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America
Chinese
Church
Eating
Games
Nfl
People
School
Sunday School
Chinese People
Find
Dim
Rest
Goes
Sum
Sundays
While
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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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Speed
Me People More
Conscientious
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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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Chinese
East
East Side
Identity
Manhattan
Maintain
Neighbors
Puerto
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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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Concerns
Saw
Identify
Immigrant
Restaurant
Young Person
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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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Allegiance
Clean
Other Countries
Poor
Water
World View
Countries
View
Treat
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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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Cooking
Identity
Writing
Discussions
Hosting
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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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Chinese
Majority
Politically Correct
Correct
Passport
Swap
Understands
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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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Burned
Chopsticks
Cooking
Far Away
Feet
Avoid
Same Thing
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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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Bamboo
Inspire
People
White
Yellow
Ceiling
Define
Operate
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When you have a strong conviction, you have a duty not to tell people what they want. At least represent yourself and say: ‘Yo, this is what I’m into, and this is what I’m seeing in the world. Let me take your hand and guide you through it, so you can see through my eyes
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Eye
Hands
Strong
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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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Bad Luck
Borders
Disenfranchised
Good Fortune
Illogical
Lines
Luck
Unnecessary
Good Luck Bad
Good Bad News
Good Bad Luck
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Whether it’s food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you come home to is probably something like cavatelli and red sauce. She’s not screaming for attention because she knows she’s good enough even if your dumb ass hasn’t figured it out yet.
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Home
Dumb
Hair
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People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.
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Opposites
People
Perspective
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