That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
ANTHONY BOURDAINYour body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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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.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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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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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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