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Anthony Bourdain

American Author

Born: Jun 25, 1956

Died: Jun 8, 2018

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There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. Anthony Bourdain

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. Anthony Bourdain

Airlines Though Temptation Various Merchandise Knives Line Been Sell Times Liquor Endorse Automobiles Products Apparel Dozens Resist

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice. Anthony Bourdain

Good Complement Chef Mix Dunk Sushi Soy Rice Your Sauce

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength. Anthony Bourdain

Good Food Strength Easily Toronto City Per Fact Good Thing Over Always Canada Biggest Cent Unique Creatively Residents Thing

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. Anthony Bourdain

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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. Anthony Bourdain

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I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back. Anthony Bourdain

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits. Anthony Bourdain

Food You Obligation Wonderful Value Tough Those Bits Eat Something Also Understand Did Die Just Little Meat

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. Anthony Bourdain

You Cooking People Cause Nurturing Pure Something Never Noble Feeding Calling Doing Providing Craft Sustenance While Them Useful Profession

I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. Anthony Bourdain

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I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. Anthony Bourdain

You Control Control Freak Would Freak Something Name Like Going Slap

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. Anthony Bourdain

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian. Anthony Bourdain

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 way travel should be. Anthony Bourdain

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It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television. Anthony Bourdain

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. Anthony Bourdain

Life Women Seem Guys Like Know Terrible Doing Truths Who

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 crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me. Anthony Bourdain

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I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. Anthony Bourdain

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