Anthony Bourdain Quotes

America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis-or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.

Anthony Bourdain

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• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Internet

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Real
  • You
  • Me

• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • World
  • Good
  • Freedom

• Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Heart
  • Way
  • My Heart

• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Home
  • America

• America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • America
  • Running
  • Understanding

• I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

  

  John Wesley
  • God
  • Mind
  • America

• America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis-or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • America
  • Food