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" I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. "
Anthony Bourdain
Talking
God
Pretty
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" My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. "
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" Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. "
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" I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. "
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" I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. "
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" It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television. "
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" I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants. "
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" You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. "
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Someone
Learn
" What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? "
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Breakfast
Make
" You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian. "
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" The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless. "
Anthony Bourdain
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Used
Understanding
" If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women. "
Anthony Bourdain
New York
Women
You
" I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. "
Anthony Bourdain
Good
Camera
Always
" Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. "
Anthony Bourdain
You
Artist
Cool
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Furniture
Car
Kitchen
" Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. "
Anthony Bourdain
Environment
Great
You
" Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way. "
Anthony Bourdain
Adventure
You
Great
" I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. "
Anthony Bourdain
Die
Career
Rest
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
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Think
" To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing. "
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" Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. "
Anthony Bourdain
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Me
Names
" The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing. "
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" If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. "
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Going
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Me
" I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent. "
Anthony Bourdain
Being
Suddenly
Going
" Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora. "
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Doing
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" Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. "
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Through
Know
" People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. "
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" People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. "
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" Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. "
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Vegan
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" I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. "
Anthony Bourdain
Never
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