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Anthony Bourdain Inspirational Quotes (314)

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As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.
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Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.
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The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.
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I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.
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And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
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I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
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Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.
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When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.
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Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.
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I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy.
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
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I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.
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I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
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I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
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Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.
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What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
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I do my very best to avoid shark fin.
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In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.
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I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
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