Anthony Bourdain quote: "I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back."

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write lik...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and for...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best no...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effecti...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slight...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more re...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evi...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you lea...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Oh my God, that was a religious experience, ... In the words of Homer Simpson, the pig is a magical ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

No Reservations
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

There is no script at all for what's said on camera,
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

They seek, consciously or not, to create a clean zone around their all-important bodies: an area fre...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

It's not as much an expose as it is a memoir, with some things that seem to have shocked and horrifi...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

What can I say, I happen to be an aficionado of the dive bar.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a goo...
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 an...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irr...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always b...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place m...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of t...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the langu...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential an...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually pag...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonabl...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your person...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to grac...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. G...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. Tha...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they pro...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find r...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'll make fun of the French, thank you very much.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any poi...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and comp...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpas...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed c...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything g...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

There are a lot less restraints on it than there used to be. It comes with a parental warning in the...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at arou...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most o...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you mi...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conv...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen yea...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, mise...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. Wh...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doin...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly cha...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like t...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself an...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a d...
ANTHONY MARRA

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both th...
ANTHONY MARRA

With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of i...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
ANTHONY FOXX

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, a...
ANTHONY HOLDEN

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ...
ANTHONY MARRA

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ...
ANTHONY ANDERSON

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endles...
ANTHONY PRATT

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as mi...
ANTHONY FAUCI

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
ANTHONY RAPP

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLOPPE

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE

I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

[During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.
ANTHONY BEAL

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man...
ANTHONY BEAL

I am a precious evil.
ANTHONY BEAL

My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
ANTHONY BEAL

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which...
ANTHONY BEAL

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
ANTHONY HOPE

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i...
ANTHONY MARRA

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first majo...
ANTHONY FAUCI

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to d...
ANTHONY CORLISATRA

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

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I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

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