Adam Richman Quotes

We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.
ADAM RICHMAN

Anand Thakur
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
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
People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests.
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Anand Thakur
One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health
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Anand Thakur
The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael – and we actually cut class to get tickets – was INXS at the Garden.
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Anand Thakur
Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
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 sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.
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Broadley Country Soccer Sponsor Team
That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.
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Another Greenland Hiking Ice Incredible Opportunity Thing
There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
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Athlete Country Example Except Known Over Soccer
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
It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.
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Kill Plotting Raped Seven Story True
I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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Country Drama Master Yale
If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”
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Car Eat Show Situation Survival Tire Took
I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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Dude Everyone Favorite Food Friend
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 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
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 think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.
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Country Involvement People Some Stuff Support Think Tottenham
I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain – I’ve always had a soft spot for this little club.
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Chain Club Like Little Neck Soft Spot Symbol Team Wear
Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
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Doll Episode Felt Hand Shook Soup
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

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