Anthony Bourdain Quotes

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me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018

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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

Jimmy Smits

EnoughStreetLatinoBeenCode

To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.

John Elway

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I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Maura Tierney

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Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.

Ruth Negga

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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Rowan Williams

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I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

Mike Huckabee

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When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and 'stability.'

Mona Eltahawy

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You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

Monica Potter

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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Louise Erdrich

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We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

Javier Bardem

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The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Joseph Bruchac

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Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Diane von Furstenberg

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