Anthony Bourdain Quotes - Page 9

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• I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Japan, Offending, Trying

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• Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Talking, Insulting, Fusion

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Chinese, Tonight, Breakfast

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• I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, Exercise, People

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• When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Mafia, Complaining

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Cameras, Very Good

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

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• I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Narrators, Unbiased, Objectives

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• If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cities, Mind, Cuisine

  "Arcane, Urbane & Insane Bourdain!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• 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

  Daughter, Wife, House

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

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• I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Moral, Restaurants

  "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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• 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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Nice, Thinking, Choices

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• The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Views, Voice, Recipes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• New Orleans is a glorious mutation

  Anthony Bourdain

  New Orleans, Mutation, Glorious

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• I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Night, Self

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• Look, getting bullied in school and coming home crying in the rain and my mom making me a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with some oysterettes. It was comfort food; that is what food should be.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, Rain, Home

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Men, Years

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• When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Years, Car

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• I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Chef

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• For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Simple, Expression

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.281, A&C Black

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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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cnn, Notion

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• It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Careers, Conscience

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

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• I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Giving Up, Play, Wish

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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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Guy, Cameras, Looks

  "Anthony Bourdain Talks ‘No Reservations,’ ‘Hunger Games’ And The Death Of Angry Bobby Flay". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Taken, Kids, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Coffee, Forever, Ruined

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