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Few 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.

Anthony Bourdain

Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Lie Mistake Yourself
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Healing Magic Yourself
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Life Live Myself Worth
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
Good food and good eating are about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself Touch
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself Please Power
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Crime Dangerous Myself
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Alone Fake Wonderful
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Learning Sex Skill Yourself
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Ambition Leave Reason
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kill One Liner Writing
I learned to recognize failure.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Place Reality
And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

Feeling Myself
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Kill Myself Sports
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Body Fun Yourself
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Myself Try
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Himself Myself
Selling out is getting a job.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

One Liner Sell
Luck is not a business model.
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Business Luck One Liner

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