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 BOURDAINI had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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 idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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.
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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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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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