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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.

Anthony Bourdain

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Experiment New Repeat Try
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Crime Divine Food Respect Taste
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
People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself One Liner People
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Myself Try
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself Touch
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Ambition Leave Reason
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
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Romantic Time 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
I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Crime Dangerous Myself
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Ideas Inspirational Success
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Learning Sex Skill Yourself
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Himself Myself
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Goodness Simplicity
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Career Goodness Rare
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Deserve Food Yourself
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Inspirational One Liner Rise
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

Character One Liner Way Yourself
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Kill Myself Sports
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Healing Magic Yourself
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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