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Anthony Bourdain Quotes

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Food Experience Adventure You

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

Andrea Corr

You Know Persona Particular Alice

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

John McAfee

Success Morning Me Wake Up Year Old

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

Matt Lauer

Early Fired Where Five Either Jobs

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

World House Outside Interior Part

The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.

Steve Martin

Community Welcome Think Judge You

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

Tony Judt

Life Government Small American Role

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Tom Waits

Woman Island Atomic Bomb Sight First

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Romeo Dallaire

Work Love Myself Care Laugh Guilt

Would I like to do a feature? Absolutely.

Michelle MacLaren

Would Like Absolutely Feature

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates

Live Writing Help Routine Possible

What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.

Jay Asher

Character Together People You Why

I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means - like the anti-gravitational drive.

Donald A. Wollheim

Men I Am Drive Think Powerful Land