David Blum > Quotes

“The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“I like anyone who cooks with pride and who likes what they’re doing, who’s cooking with something resembling love and pride, even if they’re not cooking particularly well. I think they’re on the side of the angels.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“AB: I think great chefs evolve that balance between what they themselves can bring, creatively and technically. The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. They understand those things, instinctively if not explicitly. They may not be able to articulate them, necessarily. But they do understand. There’s a lot going on. Ferran Adria, Thomas Keller. There is Mom’s voice in there somewhere. Because without that, it’s a sterile experience. It doesn’t really resonate as powerfully as it could.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“You want people who are self-starters.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Not giving a shit has been a very, very good business model for me.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“There's a reduced importance of mediating institutions, like unions and community organizations that used to be the building blocks of political power.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“government can't do everything. That there are times where it can hit at market forces—that we've got to strike the right balance between free enterprise and government regulation to make sure the market is working for everybody.”
― David Blum

“デイヴィッド：私の理解が正しければ、現代の共和党は富を成功に付いてまわるものだと見なし”
― David Blum, バラク・オバマ大統領　Kindleシングル・インタビュー

“why I wanted to go.  I was in love. I was chasing a girl. She went to Vassar. I”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“People always ask me, why are newspapers going under? And I always say the same thing. Because gray, faceless people started hiring gray, faceless people and pushed out anybody with a personality.”
― David Blum, Nikki Finke: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Audacity of Hope”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“You want people who are self-starters. You want entrepreneurship. You want people to pull their weight and don't depend on government to somehow spoon-feed them success. But you also want enough of a sense of shared destiny, enough common commitments that we can keep our air and water clean. That we can maintain our technological edge. That we can ensure the next generation is well educated. It's part of the reason why the one institution that has been more successful in our society than just about any other has been our military—because that's one area where everybody understands we're one nation, and we all have to make sacrifices.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“But you also want enough of a sense of shared destiny, enough common commitments that we can keep our air and water clean.”
― David Blum

“If I don’t fuck up I might actually be able to do this for a while. But I always figured I’d be back at brunch, eventually. DB: Brunch being… AB: …the worst case scenario. DB: You really don’t like brunch. AB: I don’t.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“skills that I would have been using as a teacher. Trying to communicate ideas.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“What we have to recognize is that those old times aren't coming back. We're not going to suddenly eliminate globalization. We're not going to eliminate technology.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“I would have been using as a teacher. Trying to communicate ideas. Getting other folks to think critically about how do we advance the cause of a more just and more prosperous America. Organizing agencies and institutions”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“anything about the movie business.”
― David Blum, Nikki Finke: The Kindle Singles Interview

“there also has been a shift in culture. We weren't exposed to the things we didn't have in the same way that kids these days are.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“As he entered a bare room in the back of Amazon's cavernous Tennessee warehouse, I saw a President who seemed remarkably human, like any other American who'd managed to make something of himself thanks to ambition, luck, and the beneficence of a government that made opportunities real.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“opportunity. Not equality of results, but making sure the playing field was level for”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“cornerstone of his latest economic push.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The question is: How do we broaden our lens so that what's true in the security arena is true when it comes to our economy, is true when it comes to education, is true when it comes to the environment? There are things we can do better together.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“hard times don't always create good politics.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“No debe asegurar igualdad de resultados, sino que el campo de juego es igual para todo el mundo.”
― David Blum, El Presidente Barack Obama: Entrevista Kindle Singles

“It's important not to sugarcoat the past,”
― David Blum

“One of the advantages we have is that we still have family members who are not only middle class, but we've got some family members who are poor. Malia and Sasha have cousins who know what it's like to struggle and know what it's like to have to scrape by. They know that those kids are just as worthy as they are, they just haven't had as much luck.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The good news is that technology does potentially empower ordinary people in ways we've never seen before.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“DB: That’s interesting. Because I work for a company that lives by the mantra of customer obsession.    AB: Yeah, but they know. DB: Do they? AB: Amazon? They know more than the NSA. The NSA is not permitted by law to know anything close to what Amazon knows. “Judging by your past purchases, we think you’d like….” You’re right! Oh my God!”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Creating good jobs, rebuilding our manufacturing base, making sure that we have the best education system possible, and that it's affordable for the ordinary family. Those are the kinds of initiatives where government can make a difference and would create in the generation that's coming up the kind of hope and optimism that characterized their parents and grandparents.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview