Anthony Bourdain Quotes

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• Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Life, Change, Travel

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  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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Grandma, Feelings, Tribes

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• If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Ocean, Moving

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• As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Moving, Return

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  your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Amusement, Body

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Mind, Enlightenment

  "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" - Macchu Picchu,

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• You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Together, Meals, Share

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  Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Character, Skills, Taught

  "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2000.

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• Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Simple, Fabulous

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Innovation, Excellence

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• Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Mind, Get Up

  “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - ‘Brooklyn’” by Caroline Framke, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2012.

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• We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Repetition

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Self, Assuming

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.276, A&C Black

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• I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Please Me, Inspire, Delight

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.18, A&C Black

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• I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Admiration And Respect, Like You, Kitchen Confidential

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• I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Interesting, Care

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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  In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Way To Live, Interest

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Trying, Static

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.193, A&C Black

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• The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Journey, Expression

  "A Cook's Tour". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2001.

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Regret, Drink

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• There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mind, Finals, Kitchen Confidential

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Cheese

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Important, Dishwashers

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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• Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Travel, Hurt

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing

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