Anthony Bourdain Quotes - Page 10

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• I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Believe, Moving

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. September 29, 2013.

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• My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Home, People, Would Be

  "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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• I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Interesting, Guy, Use

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• I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

  Anthony Bourdain

  School, Thinking, Small Numbers

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• I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Long, Ponies, Let Me

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Excellence, Doe, Rewards

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.235, A&C Black

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• I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Writing, Trying

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• I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Keith, Shows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Father, Book, Oysters

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

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• I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Writing, Interesting

  "Chef Anthony Bourdain". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2010.

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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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Names, Freak, Slap

  "Anthony Bourdain: Giving Up Cigarettes 'Has in No Way Improved My Life'". Interview with Lindsay Silberman, www.tvguide.com. April 8, 2012.

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• I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Opinion, I Can

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• I have the best job in the world.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Best Job, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sports, Hunting, Supportive

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.259, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Baseball, Party

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• You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Stuff, Hong Kong, Tokyo

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!

  Anthony Bourdain

  Attitude, Kids, Seems

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Danger, Should

  Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, Mean, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Home, Vegetables, Principles

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

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• I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Couple, Bad Friend

  Interview with Andrew Friedman, toqueland.com. May 2, 2014.

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• It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mistake, Writing, People

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• I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Guy, Comforting

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• I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Easier, Faster, Journalist

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