I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
ANTHONY BOURDAINYou have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Luck is not a business model.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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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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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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I learned to recognize failure.
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