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The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Before Eat Even Generous Go Grandma House Interested Not Interested Notion Out People Personally Proud Rude Say Serve Set Take Thailand Things Think Try Understand Unwilling You I Think

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

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Being Phenomenon Vegan

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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

Topics: Anywhere Best Camera Day Drink Eat End End Of The Day Get Gift Go Job Just Long Other Pay People Show Tv Tv Show Want Whatever Will World

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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.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Airlines Apparel Automobiles Been Dozens Endorse Knives Line Liquor Merchandise Products Resist Sell Temptation Though Times Various

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I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Any Career Chef Cook Decent Ever Friends Hired Me None Period Point Would

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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Am Anonymous Away Book Book Tour Chain Chili Doing Either Gap Go Help Hotel Know Right Right Away Room Secret Sometimes States Strip Tour Up Usual Victoria Victoria's Secret Wake Wake Up Where Window You I Am

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I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Bars Come Customers Die Even Fine Guy Hard He Him How Inside Know Little Need Pour Proud Really Remain Sat Sauce Seen Sushi Tries Want Worked You

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

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Adventure Also Congo Difficult Greatest Life Maybe Most My Life Shoot

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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.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Day Definitely Ever Forward Idea Italy Like Looking Looking Forward Northern Over Stop Tomato Vines Working

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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Actually Adopted Although Any Aspiring College Doing Dressed Meaning Myself Sort Think Were Writer Writing I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1956

Died: June 8th, 2018

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