"Food is everything we are. It's an extension……" — Anthony Bourdain
"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."
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199 Quotes by Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain has 199 quotes on this site.
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Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give…
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I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
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Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the…
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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by…
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I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I…
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part…
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When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a…
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
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Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
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If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
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I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always…
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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about…
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More Ethnic Quotes
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one of 298 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
— Darren Aronofsky
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all…
— Dave Barry
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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping…
— Eli Broad
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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My features are completely ethnic.
— Naomi Campbell
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this…
— Cesar Chavez
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I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
— Stephen Ambrose
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A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the…
— Bob Dole
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