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When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.
Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
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I'm a decent cook I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
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Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.
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Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.
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I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.
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When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.
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Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.
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In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.
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People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.
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