Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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All artists are crazy.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
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There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.
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We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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I like to find things in real life that let me get involved. Or if you need a break, go hang out with your family.
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I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
