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 BOURDAINFew 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.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Luck is not a business model.
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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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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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