Selling out is getting a job.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI learned to recognize failure.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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 is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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 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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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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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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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbone, and Pernod.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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