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

Anthony Bourdain

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" I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy. "

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" Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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

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

Anthony Bourdain

" I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. "

Anthony Bourdain

" At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. "

Anthony Bourdain

" What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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

" The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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

" Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties. "

Anthony Bourdain

" You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. "

Anthony Bourdain

" 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

" I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride. "

Anthony Bourdain

" There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime. "

Anthony Bourdain

" My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go. "

Anthony Bourdain

" If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. "

Anthony Bourdain