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Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

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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Best Devil Look Afraid Tokyo Big

When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.

Beauty Culture Grateful Childhood

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

Style School People Me Writing Over

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

Design Product First Task Once Then

I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.

Parents Reading Recognition You Boy

Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Work Live McDonald Will Earn Things

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Sonia Sotomayor

Life Rich My Life Circumstances Up

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

Love Cooking Doing Crafting I Love

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

Good Yourself People Thinking Help

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

Roy Lichtenstein

Strength Sculpture Incredible Lack

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.

Eat Pork Where Except Kosher Times

I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins.

Family Mother Great Money She Up

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Life Honesty Time Long Long Time

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