It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThis, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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.
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