Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAINTravel 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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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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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