The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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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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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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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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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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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Luck is not a business model.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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.
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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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