If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. - Andrew Carnegie
Wealth is not to feed the egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. - Andrew Carnegie
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?' - Anthony Bourdain
But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly. - Anthony Bourdain
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever. - Anthony Bourdain
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. - Anthony Bourdain
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. - Anthony Bourdain
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. - Anthony Bourdain
Give the people you work with or deal with or have relationships with the respect to show up at the time you said you were going to. And by that I mean, every day, always and forever. Always be on time. - Anthony Bourdain
I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. - Anthony Bourdain
I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. - Anthony Bourdain
I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me. - Anthony Bourdain
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. - Anthony Bourdain
I wanted kicks -- the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I'd yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I'd found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. - Anthony Bourdain
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food. It's a plus for everybody. - Anthony Bourdain
I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. - Anthony Bourdain
I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period. - Anthony Bourdain
I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. - Anthony Bourdain
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television. - Anthony Bourdain
One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.
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