Anthony Bourdain quotes - page 8

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently. (Anthony Bourdain)
To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.
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Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
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If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.
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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.
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There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
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I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.
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My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane. (Anthony Bourdain)
What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.
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I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.
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I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
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I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.
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I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.
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In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.
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I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.
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Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start. (Anthony Bourdain)
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
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The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
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Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.
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