Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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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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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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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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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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