Anthony Bourdain Quotes

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

Anthony Bourdain

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• When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Business
  • Down

• I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Intelligence
  • Network

• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Future
  • House

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Focus
  • Goal
  • Taught

• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Space
  • Project
  • Outer Space

• Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Happy

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Things
  • Human
  • Reflection

• I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Law

• I don't care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial arts promotion.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Time
  • Champion

• I'm not one of the guys in the league for the fame. I'm here so I can take of my family, my mom, my friends and take care of myself.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Mom

• Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Work

• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  

  Mary Pickford
  • Lipstick

• There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Great

• My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • High
  • Nice
  • Brain

• England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • People
  • World
  • Death

• I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Hate
  • Health
  • Behavior

• Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Trump
  • Celebrity
  • Entrepreneur

• You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

  

  Anthony Bourdain