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Alton Brown Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“Ninety percent of the technology and platforms that people now consume most of their media did not exist when I started on television. That was a really good thing because I didn’t get any feedback from anybody. My fans couldn’t get a hold of me. I didn’t know if I was doing anything right or wrong so I just kept doing what I was doing. To this day, I try not to let my fans affect what I do because in the end, you have to be authentic.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown dishes on awkward fan encounters, 3D food printers, and who intimidates him- Atlanta Magazine
Tagged: Technology, Feedback from Fans
“Fans can get really inappropriate. Fan who have been drinking can get even more inappropriate and sometimes that happens in a place where you can’t get away from.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown dishes on awkward fan encounters, 3D food printers, and who intimidates him- Atlanta Magazine
Tagged: Fans
“I’m a control freak. And I’m prickly. I fuss over every single detail.”
— Alton Brown, Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown
Tagged: Control Freak, Perfectionists
“I’m too tired to hate.”
— Alton Brown, Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown
Tagged: Exhausted, It's Easier To Love
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t have preconceived notions about anybody.”
— Alton Brown, Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown
Tagged: Openness, Don't Judge People, Come With Open Eyes, Be Nice
“I am publicly apolitical. I don’t like to be polarizing.”
— Alton Brown, Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown
Tagged: Apolitical, Neutral Politics
“Be givers of hospitality and gracious takers of it too. Accept the serendipitous moments of life because, when all is said and done, you may find out that they were not serendipitous at all. And know that faith is as real as bread broken among friends. What you believe will take you far on your journey. If you search carefully, you will find good food all along the way.”
— Alton Brown, Guideposts Magazine(August 2006)
Tagged: Finding Your Way, Faith
“In the end, all journeys are spiritual. So go off the main road.”
— Alton Brown, Guideposts Magazine(August 2006)
Tagged: Think Differently, You're Unique, Find Your Own Path, Pave Your Own Way
“The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.”
— Alton Brown, 7 words of wisdom from Alton Brown
Tagged: Just Be Yourself, Don't Care What Other People Think
“Laughing brains are more absorbent.”
— Alton Brown, 7 words of wisdom from Alton Brown
Tagged: laugh, Funny, The Importance of Laughing, Unsplash + QC
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
— Alton Brown
“There are two things that, if you removed them, would make the South simply cease to exist: One is food, the other is the Allman Brothers.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown: A Southern Showman – Garden & Gun
Tagged: The South, America
“All good Southerners are pretty much kinda mad.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown: A Southern Showman – Garden & Gun
Tagged: Southern Pride, The South, Crazy Americans, America
“America's full of fantastically well-trained eaters now. We know what's going on.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown Is the Food World's Philosopher King
Tagged: American Food Culture
“Cooking is an incredibly intimate thing to do for people. Sex is intimate, but in a way, also completely non-intimate, depending on how you approach it.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown Is the Food World's Philosopher King
Tagged: Cooking, Intimacy
“Whether you're writing a blog, you're doing a show, opening a restaurant, running a farm, it kinda comes down to what makes you different from everybody else.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown Is the Food World's Philosopher King
Tagged: Success, Think Differently, Find What Makes You Unique
“The real game changer, when you get right down to it, was Starbucks. We're starting to value things. We're willing to spend money on quality.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown Is the Food World's Philosopher King
Tagged: Consumerism
“Every disaster has a way of becoming something special, as long as you don't freak out. There are assets in every liability, if you can find them.”
— Alton Brown, Alton Brown Is the Food World's Philosopher King
Tagged: The Obstacle Is The Way, Learn From Your Mistakes, Getting Better At Things
“I'm eventually going to have to deal with myself, but I'm going to wait a little bit.”
— Alton Brown, The Bitter Southerner Interview
Tagged: Avoiding Yourself, Distracting Yourself
“You understand what you're shown on television. You don't live with this situation.”
— Alton Brown, The Bitter Southerner Interview
Tagged: Media Illusion, Abstract vs. Concrete Reality
“Don't talk about what you don't know.”
— Alton Brown, The Bitter Southerner Interview
Tagged: talking, Conversation, Know When To Shut Up
“It's my belief that we keep gravitating around the campfire that is food because, as a species, we require connectivity to each other. Food is actually one of the last universal things that we've got to do that.”
— Alton Brown, The Bitter Southerner Interview
Tagged: food, The Unity of Meals, Using Food To Heals Divides
“You remember the food and you remember the people you met who make it.”
— Alton Brown, The Bitter Southerner Interview
Tagged: Home, Cooking
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