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Me Quotes by Anthony Bourdain
- If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
- Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
- I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the…
- I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
- I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them…
- It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
- You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly…
- An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference…
- Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really…
- For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and…
- Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods…
- I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure…
- 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.…
- I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical…
- I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had…
- If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely…
- Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or…
- Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of…
- The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in…
- For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
- 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…
- I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale