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I learned to recognize failure.

Anthony Bourdain

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
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.
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Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
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
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
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
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
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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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.
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Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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Eat Food People
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Deep Ideas
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
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
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
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch

I learned to recognize failure.

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