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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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New York City
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If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.
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I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable.
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[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.
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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.
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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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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
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I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.
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The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.
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Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.
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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 don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
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If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.
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You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.
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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. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.
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I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.
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Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.
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I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.
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