I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets. — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie. — Anthony Bourdain Astronomy Copy Share Image
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things. — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again. — Anthony Bourdain Education Copy Share Image
The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the… — Anthony Bourdain Coffee Copy Share Image
Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the… — Anthony Bourdain Character Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in… — Anthony Bourdain Art Copy Share Image
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, when residents found that the one patient at the new place was black, they mobbed the place, set it on fire,… — Anthony Bourdain Doctor Copy Share Image
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“These are the end products of the Masterminds of Safety and Ethics, bulked up on cheese that contains no cheese, chips fried… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the… — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
“There is no halfway. You don’t, it turns out, sell out a little bit. Maybe you thought you were just going to… — Anthony Bourdain Football Copy Share Image
“The food that comes in Tuesday is fresh, the station prep is new, and the chef is well rested after a Sunday… — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. — Anthony Bourdain Being Copy Share Image
If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. — Anthony Bourdain Crafts Copy Share Image
If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. — Anthony Bourdain Feminism Copy Share Image
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
“I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste.” — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain Affair Copy Share Image
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
