Anthony Bourdain Short Quotes

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The room smelled like a gust of wind from Satan's anus.

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Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

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Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.

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You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

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

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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

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Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.

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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

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For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

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Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

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Anyone who refuses to let you eat your burger at a temperature less than medium is on the side of the terrorists.

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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.

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

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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.

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Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

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

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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.

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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 meat industry.

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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.

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I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

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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 was valuable information.

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Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.

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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 parents.

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