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I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'

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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.
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People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
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You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
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Luck is not a business model.
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I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me that's impressive.
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In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.
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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
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I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.
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In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.
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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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I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.
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I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.
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There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.
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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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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
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