Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
ANTHONY BOURDAINIf 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.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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 had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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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.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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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.
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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