I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
ANTHONY BOURDAINPeople confuse me. Food doesn’t.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Luck is not a business model.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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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.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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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.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
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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.
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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