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Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.

Adam Richman

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.
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Anand Thakur
I’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.
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Accidentally Drama Math Professor YaleM Plumber
Generally speaking, there’s a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage.
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Car Cartilage Difference Game Nose Speaking
People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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Believe Mirror People Race Run Running
I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –
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Although Big Fantastic Soccer Support Team
If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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Nice People Something Tell Two You
So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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Capacity Entertainment Limelight Obviously Some
I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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Country Fantastic Food Help Job Journey Nearly Restaurant
I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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Country Drama Master Yale
If it’s a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it’s hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.
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Animal Favourite Food Matter Personally Piece Question Stuff
I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Age Book Botanic Brooklyn Demo Garden Origami Thirteen Twelve Year
There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say,
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Chef Dude Food Host Man Pairing Used
If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
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Breathing Dragon Fire Golden Puppy Sirius
They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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Experience Flew Immersive Over
He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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Contacted Essentially Guide Heard Shortest Show
I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.
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Kid League Little Soccer Sponsored Team Year
To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].
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Asked Man Menus Opportunity Pairing People Wine
What they’re saying is, “I know who you are. I watch your stuff.” What’s better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing. What am I being pissy about?
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Attitude Better Gratitude Now Pissy Saying Watch
He said, “For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they’ve seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that.”
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Anand Thakur
It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.
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Anand Thakur
I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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Country Giving Up Kid Moment Nice Surreal Think Unemployment
I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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Dude Everyone Favorite Food Friend
I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
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Allowing Detractor Feeling Food Health Indulgent Satisfaction Well World
People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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Acumen Culinary Intelligence People Respected
I said “I’ve had pho,” and then he goes, “Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?” I was like, “Come on, man
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Big Bowl Comen Man Goes Like Number Pho
The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater.
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Country Director Life Play Reporter Stalking Story Theatre
My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book.
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Book Country Dad Eight Epcot Origami Pavilion Sheet Step Mom

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