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Anthony Bourdain Quotes

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“Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”
— Anthony Bourdain,
Tagged: Enlightenment, Wisdom, Thinking, Mind, continuous learning, Life
“The third slice of bread on a club sandwich, I think, is a satanic invention.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Not My Job: We Quiz Anthony Bourdain On A Bored Dane(Namely, Hamlet)
Tagged: food, Writers
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”
— Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Tagged: Traveling, Adventure, Change, Going Out, inspiration, influence
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
— Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
Tagged: travelling, Journey, Change, life changing, Experiences
“If I’m an advocate of anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. It’s a plus for everybody.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain Remembered: Savor This Amazing New Book Of Quotes, Memories, Photos
Tagged: food, Sharing Experiences, moving
“I've always felt that food at its best is a reflection of the person who made it.”
— Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour, Season 2: A Mystical World
Tagged: Cooking, Soul Food
“And that carries you through all the tough times, when you know that there's a place and people and food. There's somewhere you go where you know you'll always be happy. It's as good as it gets.”
— Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour, Season 2: Food Tastes Better with Sand Between Your Toes
Tagged: Happiness, Finding Peace
“We’ve all chosen to turn our backs on the nine-to-five, on ever having a Friday or Saturday night off, on ever having a normal relationship with a non-cook”
— Anthony Bourdain, Don’t Eat Before Reading This
Tagged: Restaurant, Restaurant Industry, food, Food Industry
“In these current circumstances, one must pick a side. I stand unhesitatingly and unwaveringly with the women.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn’t
Tagged: Anthony Bourdain, Me Too
“My first indication that food was something other than a substance one stuffed in one's face when hungry—like filling up at a gas station—came after fourth grade in elementary school.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
Tagged: first lines of books, food
“I like things to be strange and beautiful and, if and when possible, not done before. I’d rather fail gloriously and foolishly than turn in efficient and adequate work again and again. That’s just the way I am.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain Has a Lot to Say About the Opioid Epidemic Ravaging Small-Town America
Tagged: Life, life advice, Living A Good Life
“These buildings were not designed to thrill or elevate or warm with their beauty. They are designed to dwarf the individual, to intimidate, to remind constantly that the state is all powerful and supreme, that the individual is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.”
— Himself - Host, Anthony Bourdain, Season 8: Rome
Tagged: Fascism, Italy, Propaganda, Governmental Authority
“Smells like dirty feet, tastes like heaven.”
— Anthony Bourdain
Tagged: Cheese, Aroma, taste
“I consider one of my few virtues—I don’t have a lot of them—but one of them would be a deep sense of curiosity. It’s inconceivable why anyone would want to not experience as many colors in the spectrum as possible with our limited time on Earth.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain & The Omnivore’s Agenda
Tagged: Curiosity, Being Curious, Staying Curious, Openness
“Look, I never wanted to be part of bro culture. I was always embarrassed. If I ever found myself, and I mean going way back, with a group of guys and they started leering at women or making, ‘Hey, look at her. Nice rack,’ I was always, I was so uncomfortable.”
— Anthony Bourdain, In the Wake of the Weinstein and John Besh Scandals, Anthony Bourdain Has Regrets
Tagged: Sexual Harassment
“This is not a cookbook.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking
Tagged: first lines of books, food, Cooking
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook(P.S.)
Tagged: Traveling, Wanderlust
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