Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkDisciplineFocusMeKind

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

John Glenn

TelevisionFindLate-NightOutWatch

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

Sugata Mitra

LearningChildrenSchoolConfident

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

PoetryPlaceKindIslandLandLevel

Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

Michel Foucault

PeopleLawImportantSystemCommon

A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

Lucy Powell

WillWayPossibleDealGlobalOnly

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Jose Bergamin

WomenTodayWomanManMistakeBeing

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Dayananda Saraswati

MusicTimeCultureLanguageUnique

I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.

Brock Lesnar

TrainingStay FocusedYouBecome

It is not easy to arrive in a different country and adapt quickly, but I think I'm getting there, and I'm proud of that.

Anthony Martial

ProudThinkEasyCountryAdapt

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

Peter Garrett

MusicSeriouslyTakeFactVery

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

Shana Alexander

DanceAmericaArtsCinderellaQuite

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

Lupita Nyong'o

FatherSchoolCityLearnYearBorn

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