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It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.
Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.
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I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.
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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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I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.
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My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just threw meat at her and she's happy on a 100 percent protein diet, so we seldom ate together.
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People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.
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Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.
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I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out I'm asleep for takeoff.
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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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Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first.
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Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
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One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.
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To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
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The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.
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I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.
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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'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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My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.
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