It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
ANTHONY BOURDAINYou have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Luck is not a business model.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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’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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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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