I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

We searched Anthony Bourdain's major published works—*Kitchen Confidential*, *Medium Raw*, *A Cook's Tour*, and *The Nasty Bits*—along with his extensive on-camera commentary from *No Reservations* and *Parts Unknown*, and we could not locate this exact sentence in any of them. The line does appear in two recent books that quote it under Bourdain's name—Justin Jones-Fosu's *I Respectfully Disagree* (2024) and Zara Nawab's *The Connected Life* (2026)—but both simply credit him without citing where or when he said it, so they carry the attribution forward rather than establishing an original source. A full-text check of several Bourdain titles turned up no verbatim match, though we treat that as inconclusive given the coverage gaps in digitized speeches, interviews, and broadcast transcripts. The sentiment fits Bourdain's well-documented outlook—curiosity about and empathy for people whose views differed from his own—which is likely why it circulates freely under his name, but thematic fit is not proof of authorship. We found no citable competing author and no documented earlier use of this exact phrasing, so there are no grounds for calling it misattributed; it remains widely credited to him but unconfirmed by any primary source. We are marking this quotation as attributed.