I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
ANTHONY BOURDAINPerhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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Luck is not a business model.
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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbone, and Pernod.
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And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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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.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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