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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.

Anthony Bourdain

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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Ourselves Space Time
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
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 BOURDAIN

Beautiful Myself Night
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
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
Luck is not a business model.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Business Luck One Liner
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character Skill Yourself
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
I learned to recognize failure.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Doctor
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character One Liner Way Yourself
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself Touch
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Life Live Myself Worth
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Himself Myself
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Dream Reward Understand

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