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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.

Anthony Bourdain

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Dream Reward Understand
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
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
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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Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
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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Beautiful Myself Night
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Eat Himself Myself
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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One Liner Sin
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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Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
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.
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Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
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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Food Life Live Myself Worth
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
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
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
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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Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
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.
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Eat Kill Myself Sports
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
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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Lie Mistake Yourself
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

Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.

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