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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Anthony Bourdain

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
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
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 learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
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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Alone Fake Wonderful
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
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
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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Food Ourselves Space Time
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Inspirational One Liner Rise
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
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
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
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

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