Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

Chef, Author, Television Personality

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, author, and television personality known for his influential work in culinary storytelling.

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Born
June 25, 1956
Died
June 8, 2018
Quotes
337
Rank
#396

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"I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives."

Character Artist Thinking
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"There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either."

Book Writing Normal
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"To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect."

Nice Thinking Choices
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"If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental."

Communication People Generations
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"If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something."

People Beans Rice
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"I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets."

Hurt Regret Generations
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"At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage."

House Kitchen Dinner
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"I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable."

Support Way Facts
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"I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that."

Giving Up Play Wish
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"A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without."

Cheese Dessert Stilton
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"The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure."

People Cooking Noble
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"Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention."

Memories Past Boredom
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"When do you stop to de-douche?"

Douches
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"I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people."

Hurt Exercise People
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"I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food."

Korean Food Explosions Interest
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"Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?"

Culture World American Culture
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"I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy."

Thinking People Healthy
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"Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through."

Fall Vacation Meals
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"I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream."

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"When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car."

Writing Years Car
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