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Luck is not a business model.

Anthony Bourdain

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Better Eat Hunger Learning Life Live People Possible Travel Yourself
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Dream Reward Understand
The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Body Fun Yourself
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
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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Change Leave Life Small Travel World Yourself
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
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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Eat Food People
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Experiment New Repeat Try
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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Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself

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