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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• 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

• 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

• Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Age
  • Thoughts

• When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

  

  Mark Warner
  • Life
  • School
  • Business

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Different
  • Game

• In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Moving

• Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial.

  

  Carol Kaye
  • Remember
  • Practice
  • Littles

• My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Argument
  • Citizenship

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

  

  Anthony Bourdain