Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.
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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
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That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.
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Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.
