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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Anthony Bourdain

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
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
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Food Myself One Liner People
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
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch
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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Better Eat Hunger Learning Life Live People Possible Travel Yourself
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
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
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Food Myself Please Power
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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Lie Mistake Yourself
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Crime Dangerous Myself
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
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
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
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.
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Eat Kill Myself Sports
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
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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Better Different Himself Home Oneself
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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Feeling Myself
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.
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Beautiful Myself Night

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