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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINFew 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.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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