Anthony Bourdain Quotes

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGoodOpportunityYouTasteGet

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

Jesmyn Ward

HopeEmpathyPeopleFeelComplicated

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Michael Graves

GoodPeopleBetterTryingYouLook

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

Stanley Hauerwas

StruggleWarRestRealityMoreSee

It's pretty tough to play some good footy when your team is always losing.

Sonny Bill Williams

GoodLosingTeamToughPlayAlways

Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.

Troy Carter

WorkSimplePeopleIdeasHustle

Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.

Mo Ibrahim

PeopleMeBetterGeniusClaimKids

I have a working-class approach to music.

LP

MusicWorking-ClassApproach

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Joseph Barbera

LaughHelpCreateKnowHospitalGot

The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.

Joseph Stiglitz

InnovationProgressOthersStandards

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

Dick Dale

SomeoneMeanStageHeadSideUsed

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Douglas Fairbanks

LifeManWorldDoubtLivingNothing

I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.

Dove Cameron

HappinessI AmHappyPeopleEnergy

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