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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

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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Myself Try
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Crime Dangerous Myself
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
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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Alone Fake Wonderful
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic 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
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
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Deep Ideas
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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Crime Divine Food Respect Taste
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor

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.

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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.

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