Top 12 Anthony Bourdain quotes
Anthony Bourdain is one of those guys you don't want to love. He's got this dick-ish way of being that scares happy-light-friendly ladies like me. And yet, I cannot help but nod in agreement with so much of what he says. Recently, wealthsimple came out with an article on Anthony Bourdain and his view on finances. There I was nodding again. A few genius quotes from the article:Anthony on debt:
"I am fanatical about not owing anybody any money. I hate it. I don’t want to carry a balance, ever. I have a mortgage, but I despise the idea. That was my biggest objection to buying property, though I wasn’t in the position to pay cash."
Anthony on making big bucks:
"To me, money is freedom from insecurity, freedom to move, time if you choose to make use of time."
Anthony on paying taxes:
"Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind. Maybe that’s a luxury, but I don’t need to hire some hotshot to spend 12 hours a day figuring out how to chisel the government out of an extra few thousand dollars. If getting that extra money means a lot of phone calls and talking to financial analysts and lawyers, I don’t want it. I don’t want to have those conversations."
And that's just one article. If you've been following along as long as I have, you find some real gems spewed out of his gorgeous pie hole...Anthony on Detroit:
"I love Detroit. I love Detroiters. You’ve got to have a sense of humor to live in a city so relentlessly fucked. You’ve got to be tough—and occasionally even devious. And Detroiters are funny, tough—and supreme improvisers. They are also among the best and most fun drinkers in the country."
Anthony on Ina Garten:
"I love Ina Garten. She’s one of the few people on Food Network who can actually cook. When Ina Garten roasts a chicken, she roasts it correct. When Ina Garten makes mashed potatoes, those are some solid mashed potatoes. In many ways I want Ina’s life. I don’t want to live in her house. I don’t want to spend a weekend there. It gets weird in Ina Land . . . Oh, when Jeffrey gets home, he’ll be so happy I made meatloaf. And then he comes home and you’re pretty sure he’s not into meatloaf."
Anthony on cheese:
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."
Anthony on retirement:
"I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy."
Anthony on Russia:
"On Vladimir Putin: “Russians love him. They seem to feel about him how New Yorkers used to feel about Giuliani: He may be a son of a b#@ch, but he’s our son of a b#@ch."
Anthony on parenting:
“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”
Anthony on beauty:
"Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night."
Anthony on travel:
"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body."
Anthony on standing for something:
"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. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
This last one was so good I added it onto the opening page of A PARIS YEAR.
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