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Anthony Bourdain  Quotes
It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about “Give me your hungry…your oppressed…give me...

—Anthony Bourdain

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AmericaPluralismTolernace
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

—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...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Food
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

—Anthony Bourdain

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Cats
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Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat...

—Anthony Bourdain

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ExperienceFoodTravel
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

—Anthony Bourdain

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Food
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They’re professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don’t...

—Anthony Bourdain

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We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Food
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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Travel
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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...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Regrets
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure

—Anthony Bourdain

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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.

—Anthony Bourdain

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JourneyTravel
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In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Travel-Writing
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

—Anthony Bourdain

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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting...

—Anthony Bourdain

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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.

—Anthony Bourdain

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Drinking
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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.

—Anthony Bourdain

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FoodHumorMeat
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Travel
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And now to sleep, to dream…perchance to fart.

—Anthony Bourdain

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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

—Anthony Bourdain

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FoodLifeTry-New-Things
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If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in...

—Anthony Bourdain

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I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living–all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my...

—Anthony Bourdain

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BourdainExpectations
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

—Anthony Bourdain

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CheeseEssaysFood
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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever

—Anthony Bourdain

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Inspirational-Attitude
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef...

—Anthony Bourdain

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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

—Anthony Bourdain

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Hard-Work
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In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination–until after it’s run through...

—Anthony Bourdain

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FoodFood-RegulationHumor
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Only one in four has a chance at making it…. And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me. I...

—Anthony Bourdain

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ChoiceDrugs
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Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

—Anthony Bourdain

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CulinaryCultureFood
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He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.

—Anthony Bourdain

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Contentment
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we’ve all had to become disappears, when we’re confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

—Anthony Bourdain

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CookingFoodHumor
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Assume the worst. About everybody. But don’t let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone...

—Anthony Bourdain

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Perspective
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your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

—Anthony Bourdain

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BodyFood
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Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.

—Anthony Bourdain

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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically...

—Anthony Bourdain

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