American - Author | June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
Anthony Bourdain
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I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
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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 of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.
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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.
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I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
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I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
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The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
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In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.
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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.
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I do my very best to avoid shark fin.
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