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

Anthony Bourdain

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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Inspirational One Liner Rise
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Friendship Myself Respect 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
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Dream Reward Understand
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
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
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
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Body Fun Yourself
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
Luck is not a business model.
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Business Luck One Liner
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
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
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
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
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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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
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
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
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
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
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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Crime Divine Food Respect Taste
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
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
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill 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
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
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Food Myself One Liner People
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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One Liner Sin
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
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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Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
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
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity

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

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