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

Anthony Bourdain

I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

Eat Himself Myself
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
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Dream Reward Understand
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
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
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
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Deserve Food Yourself
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 BOURDAIN

Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
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

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

Body Fun Yourself
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Inspirational One Liner Yourself
Luck is not a business model.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Business Luck One Liner
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Inspirational One Liner Rise
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Learning Sex Skill Yourself
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kill One Liner Writing
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Career Goodness Rare
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Goodness Simplicity
I learned to recognize failure.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Change Leave Life Small Travel World Yourself
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
People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself One Liner People
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Mind One Liner Place Rest
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk

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