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It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

Anthony Bourdain

Drinking, Alcohol, Kind

"Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. February 25, 2015.

This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.

Anthony Bourdain

Beautiful, Dream, Morning

"Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. May 26, 2014.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

Anthony Bourdain

Vinegar, Enough, Bloody

Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.252, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.

Anthony Bourdain

Daughter, Stars, Vacation

"Q& A with Anthony Bourdain on food porn, Libya and his move to CNN". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.delcotimes.com. May 20, 2013.

It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

Anthony Bourdain

Television, Just Being, Normal

Source: www.macleans.ca

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Anthony Bourdain

Chef, Evangelical, Subjects

I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.

Anthony Bourdain

Character, Artist, Thinking

Source: www.macleans.ca

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

Anthony Bourdain

Hurt, Regret, Generations

Source: www.macleans.ca

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

Anthony Bourdain

Communication, People, Generations

Source: www.macleans.ca

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

Anthony Bourdain

Class, America, Poor

"Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.

Anthony Bourdain

Hate, Self, Talking

"Anthony Bourdain Talks Travel, Food, and War". Interview with John Little, blogsofwar.com. July 20, 2014.