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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
Anthony Bourdain
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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.
Truman Capote
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As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.
Anthony Bourdain
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Anthony Bourdain
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I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
Truman Capote
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But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.
Anthony Bourdain
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I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.
Truman Capote
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[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
Truman Capote
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If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.
Paul Mazursky
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In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
Mary Oliver
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PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.
Anthony Bourdain
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Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.
Anthony Bourdain
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The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
Seamus Heaney
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Anthony Bourdain
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One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.
Imre Kertész
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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Anthony Bourdain
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I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
Anthony Bourdain
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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
Truman Capote
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It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.
Truman Capote
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls
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If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?
Truman Capote
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
Truman Capote
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New York is the only real city-city.
Truman Capote
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What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.
Truman Capote
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