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Adam Richman

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
Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
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Attitude Gratitude Thing
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
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
They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.
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Blow Book Give Origami Overleaf Pack Really Sick Sometimes
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
In the early ’90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.
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Early Floating Look People Somewhere Stuff
I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.
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Bit Little Man Neighbour Number Yield
“Okay, that’s kind of conceivable.” If you’re talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.
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Anticipate Conceivable Dude Fine Food Man Necessary Okay Pairing Think Wine
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
It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
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Another Contract Like Nice Renewed Splendid Thing Year
I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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Country Drama Master Yale
People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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Acumen Culinary Intelligence People Respected
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
My mom always says, “Pack your smile,” but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food.
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Always Articulated Beautiful Man Mom Pack Smile
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
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
I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.
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Kid League Little Soccer Sponsored Team Year
When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.
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Addiction Chilli Hot Pepper Really Red Started Thinking
I’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day
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Anand Thakur
It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.
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Cartilage Chicken End Game Leg Meat
Generally speaking, there’s a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage.
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Car Cartilage Difference Game Nose Speaking
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
Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It’s surreal.
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Chipped Cocktail Hiking Iceberg Made Staying Surreal Took
You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.
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Change Club Friend Spouse
I’m not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me – but to say, “I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina’s wine country,”
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Bowl Expense Kidding Paid Research Super Surreal Ticket Wine
A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
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Country Died Facebook Friend Honour Kid Obscure Started Team Write

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