Anthony Bourdain Quotes

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• I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This…
• Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
• There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to…
• I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'
• Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
• There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
• No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
• I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
• I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone…
• 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,…
• 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…
• your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
• What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

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