Anthony Bourdain Quotes

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

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.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'

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.

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.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.