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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

Topics: After Another China Could Die Go Ignorant Left Life Lot My Life Places Rest Show Still

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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Books Decent Easy Good Like Make Me Over Pretty Sentences Talk Them Try Write Writer I Write

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I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

~Anthony Bourdain

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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

~Anthony Bourdain

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I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Best Boring Go Interest Like Me Misery Nothing Restaurants Stories Tell Telling Would

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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: After Back Basic Big Big Difference Character Difference Employer Enough Kind Knew Life Made Me Mine My Life Patch Person Rough Sort Take Tell Time Up Who

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I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Brooklyn Career Could Die Ignorant Nothing Rest Shows

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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

Topics: Aspire Could Feed Few Friends Good Kids Point Reach Surely Themselves Think Where World Would I Think

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

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Control Control Freak Freak Going Like Name Slap Something Would You

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I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Avoid Best Shark Very

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1956

Died: June 8th, 2018

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